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DECEMBER 1993
FEATURES
8
THE COMPUTE CHOICE AWARDS
Edited by Robert Bixby
The 25 best hardware and
software products money
can buy.
36
TEST LAB
Edited by Mike Hudnall
Ten low-cost laser printers for
under $1,000 each, with
sharp output and great
graphics.
98
PRODUCTIVITY CHOICE
By William Harrel
PagePlus 2.0 from Serif.
COIUMNS
4
EDITORIAL LICENSE
By Clifton Karnes
The men and women who
invented the future.
58
NEWS & NOTES
By Jill Champion Booth
Top computer news.
62
FEEDBACK
Answers to tough questions.
66
INTRODOS
By Tony Roberts
Secrets of the PATH
command.
68
WINDOWS WORKSHOP
By Clifton Karnes
Spying on Windows with
WinScope.
70
PROGRAMMING POWER
By Tom Campbell
Visual Basic goes database.
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HARDWARE CLINIC
By Mark Minasi
Video Blaster, Video Spigot,
and Indeo put to the test.
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TIPS & TOOLS
Edited by
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Tips from our readers.
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PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY
By Bradley M. Small
Put OS/2 to work for you.
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ART WORKS
By Robert Bixby
The new Harvard Graphics
for Windows.
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NEWS BITS
By Jill Champion Booth
Top stories at press time.
MULTIMEDIA PC
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FAST FORWARD
By David English
Are we witnessing the birth
of a new art form?
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50 GREAT MULTIMEDIA
GIFT IDEAS
By David English, Phillip
Morgan, and Lisa Young
Create some excitement
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NEW MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTS
Edited by Lisa Young
The hottest hardware and
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MULTIMEDIA SPOTLIGHT
By David English
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DISCOVERY CHOICE
By Clayton Walnum
Eagle Eye Mysteries from
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GAME INSIDER
By Shay Addams
A look at new games
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By Scott A. May
Betrayal at Krondor from
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GAMEPLAY
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Previews of games almost
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Winstation 433,
Microsoft Word 6.0,
WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS,
Day of the Tentacle,
Winlmages:morph,
Rock and Bach Studio,
Raiiroad Tycoon Deluxe,
ARES 486-33DX,
Grand Slam Bridge II,
Micro Bridge Companion,
XTree for Windows 1.5,
Axonix LapStation IV,
Realms of Arkania,
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Medley Plus.
Eternam,
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EDITORIAL LICENSE
Clifton Karnes
in this issue
we tiDitor
our Industry's
present
past, and future.
This issue's big story is
tlie COMPUTE Choice
Awards, and looking at
tlie finalists, I was struck
by liow far the personal com-
puter has come in the last ten
years and by how critical gra-
phical user interfaces, mice, la-
ser printers, networking, and
object-oriented programming
have become to its success.
Most of the software products
in our finalist list are GUI
based (most, in fact, run on
Windows). Almost all of these
programs support the
mouse, and many — such as
the desktop publishing and
presentation programs — de-
pend on laser printers for
their final output. And commu-
nications (networking) soft-
ware has become one of the
fastest-growing categories in
the last year. Lastly, many of
these top programs were
built with object-oriented tech-
niques, and in fact, our pro-
gramming-tool winner this
year is an object-oriented pro-
gramming language.
The interesting thing about
all these innovations is that
they didn't come from Micro-
soft, Apple, or IBM, at least
not initially. They originated
someplace you probably
wouldn't expect — Xerox.
As most of you already
know, Xerox, which was origi-
nally called the Haloid Compa-
ny, invented the photocopy-
ing process. It spent 15 years
developing xerography, and
when it finally brought it to mar-
ket, the company was reward-
ed with instant success. Xer-
ox realized, however, that pa-
per was not the future. It felt
that the future of the office lay
in digital— computer— technol-
ogy. To help it gain a foothold
in this uncharted area, Xerox
founded a research institute
whose broad mandate was to
discover the architecture of in-
formation. It built this institute
in Palo Alto, California, and
called it PARC, for Palo Alto
COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
Research Center.
To gauge just how impres-
sive PARC's achievements
were, we need to take a look
at the computer situation in
1970, when PARC was found-
ed. At this time, the main-
frame computer was king,
and most mainframes ran just
one program at a time. As a
programmer, you would cre-
ate your program, punch it on-
to cards, and give it to a
white-coated computer techni-
cian who would load it into
the computer and run it. The
next day or the next week,
you'd get your results. In
1970, the cutting edge of com-
puter technology was some-
thing called timesharing. In a
timesharing system, there are
several users connected to
one computer, and each gets
a portion of the computer's
time. Using this model, the
computer can serve more us-
ers, but with a slight degrada-
tion in performance.
At first, the researchers at
PARC considered jumping on
the timesharing bandwagon,
but an insightful leader, Bob
Taylor, saw beyond timeshar-
ing to the personal computer.
In his vision, each user would
have his or her own comput-
er, connected to other person-
al computers so information
could be shared.
Through Taylor's persis-
tence and vision, PARC
skipped timesharing and start-
ed working directly on build-
ing a personal computer, tt
succeeded and called its cre-
ation the Alto. It wanted the Al-
to to have a graphical user in-
terface and a mouse, so it
built that in. It also realized
that a WYSIWYG display de-
manded a WYSIWYG printer,
so it invented the laser printer
(which is based on the xero-
graphic process). Since laser
printers were even more ex-
pensive then than now (the
cost for the first ones ran
around $30,000), it designed
a way to connect the person-
al computers to the printer us-
ing cables and protocols. It
called this Ethernet, the first lo-
cal area network or LAN.
To mal<;e it easy for end us-
ers to program their ma-
chines, Alan Kay and a team
of researchers developed
one of the first object-oriented
programming languages —
Smalltalk.
It would be 15 years before
the world at large would see
these developments reach fru-
ition, and none of the success-
es would come from Xerox.
With a combination of bad
timing and inept manage-
ment, Xerox failed to turn
even one of these miraculous
inventions into a viable prod-
uct. PARC's seeds bore fruit
in other people's gardens,
however, PARC showed the
GUI-based Alto to Steve
Jobs and Bill Gates, for exam-
ple, and it formed the impetus
for Apple's Macintosh and Mi-
crosoft's Windows, And sever-
al researchers left PARC to
found their own companies to
develop products based on
the ideas that originated at
PARC.
Why did Xerox ignore these
breathtaking innovations? The
answers are complex, but
they're put forth well in Fum-
bling the Future by Douglas K.
Smith and Robert Alexander
(Morrow, 1988), which has
been the basis for most of my
PARC info.
The point of this bit of his-
tory is that the five most impor-
tant technologies in the last 20
years were all created at
PARC: the personal computer,
the graphical user interface,
the laser printer, the local area
network, and object-oriented
end-user programming. In
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take a moment to honor the
men and women at PARC
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'ach year, COMPUTE hon-
I ors the best hardware and
software products with the
COMPUTE Choice Awards. From
the hundreds of products we see
annually, we select the finest in 25
categories. Every year, it gets hard-
er to choose the finalists and win-
ners, because the overall quality of
hardware and software products is
improving. Because of our lead
time, each year's awards also cover
products released at the very end of
the previous year.
What does it take to be a COM-
PUTE Choice Award finalist? I
always know when it's time to start
picking them because I start getting
phone calls from publicists asking
how they're selected. Here's how it's
done. 'We contact a few dozen peo-
ple whose opinions we value — writ-
ers, editors, computer enthusiasts,
industry watchers — and ask what
they've seen lately that really blew
them away. Some respond enthusi-
astically with only one or two recom-
mendations. Others reply with sev-
eral recommendations in every cat-
egory. We look over the lists, make
sure the products meet the editors'
qualifications, and set about narrow-
ing the list. In other words, every
product listed here, whether a final-
ist or a COMPUTE Choice Award
recipient, is a winner.
The changes from other years
include a heavier reliance on
Windows as the operating system of
choice. Less and less outstanding
software is originating in DOS. More
products, like Claris Works and
Lotus Improv, are challenging the
existing metaphors and seeking out
new ways of visualizing and working
with information.
In some areas, the race seems to
be tightening considerably among
the major contenders. In laptop
computers, graphics, and desktop
publishing, for example, you will see
familiar names and faces from years
past. But while the distinctions
among products in some areas
become clearer, in other areas
(operating systems and environ-
ments, for example) the waters just
seemi to be getting muddier.
All of this is great news for soft-
ware junkies. Instead of one right
way of doing things, you will find
many divergent ways of getting
work done and having fun on your
computer.
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Microsoft Word
for Windows 6.0
Microsoft Word for Windows has
always been king of the hill in
Windows word processors. With Ami
Pro and WordPerfect for Windows,
both of which are excellent products,
the competition's hot, but for our
money, Word for Windows 6.0 is slill
the one to beat.
WinWord made the toolbar famous,
and since the features accessed by
its toolbar are at the heart of the pro-
gram, let's take a quick toolbar tour.
Going from left to right, you'll find but-
tons for opening and saving files;
printing; print preview; checking your
spelling; cutting, copying, pasting,
and format painting; undoing and
redoing; autoformatting; inserting
tables; setting coiumns; entering
drawing mode; inserting charts; show-
ing special symbols; zooming; and
calling help.
WinWord 2.0 fans will recognize
several important additions in the tool-
bar list. The format paint button can
copy formats from one paragraph to
another. Undo and redo offer multiple
levels, unlike the single undo in 2.0.
Autoformat takes your data and for-
mats everything from paragraphs to
characters based on a style you
select. The drawing button actually
turns WinWord into a graphics pro-
gram, which iets you draw right on the
page. And the zoom tool is a combo
box that lets you specify almost any
scaling for your pages.
Below this toolbar you'li find the
ribbon, with options for style, font,
character styles (bold, italic, and
underline), justification, and so on. In
addition, you'll find five other toolbars
you can use, customize, and display
at your option.
You won't see this feature on the
toolbar, but WinWord 6.0 has a built-in
autocorrection module that automati-
cally changes typos like JHe to Ihe
and recieve to receive. You can edit
the correction dictionary to cope with
your own idiosyncratic typing errors
and turn this feature on or off.
Having thoroughly researched
user's wants and needs, Microsoft
sets a new standard in word process-
ing with Word for Windows 6.0, a
product that's amazingly powerful,
intelligent, and well designed.
CLIRON kARNES
Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0
(Microsoft)
Circle reader service number 325
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Other Finalists
Claris Works (Claris)
Circle reader service number 326
WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows
(WordPerfect)
Circle reader service number 328
WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS
(WordPerfect)
Circle reader service number 327
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Quattro Pro for Windows 5.0
The spreadsheet war continues to
escalate. Each new version of the
most popular spreadsheets adds fea-
tures and ease of use. In a tight race
this year, Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows
Release 4 ran a close second, earn-
ing itself an honorable mention, but
Quattro Pro for Windows 5.0 came out
on top, the winner both because of its
feature set and because of its
unheard-of introductory price of
$49.95 (the product will be regularly
priced at $99.95).
We've always liked Quattro's note-
book feature and its easy-to-use
SpeedBar. This new version has
added more SpeedBars (which can
be available or hidden), Borland has
added a SpeedBar Designer so you
can create your own SpeedBars using
built-in or custom controls. The new
spelling checker (available on the
$495 Quattro Pro for Workgroups ver-
sion) is also a nice feature. The
spelling checker suggests words and
lets you build custom dictionaries — a
feature we've always wanted on our
spreadsheets.
Getting help with Quattro has been
made more convenient, particularly as
the number of items available on the
SpeedBar increases. In addition to the
instant help that appears when you
move the pointer over an icon,
Borland has included what it calls Ob-
ject Help. With Object Help it's easy to
get more information about each item
by simply pointing and clicking. If the
short help isn't enough, just click on
the Help button that appears, and
you'll receive more in-depth informa-
tion. It's all very convenient, and it
takes us one step closer to not need-
ing the manual.
Quattro Pro for Windows excels as
an easy-to-use spreadsheet for begin-
ners, but it's also a powerful, complex
tool for those who need a full-featured
number-cruncher.
STEPHEN LEVY
Quattro Pro for Windows 5.0 (Borland
International)
Circle reader service number 331
Other Finalists
Lotus Improv (Lotus Development)
Circle reader service number 330
Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows Release 4
(Lotus Development)
Circle reader service number 329
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Paradox for Windows 1 .0
Paradox for Windows is a beautifully
designed database program that has
something for beginners and pros
alike. With its intuitive design tools,
tyros can get databases up and run-
ning quickly without writing a line of
code, and pros have a powerful built-
in language at their disposal for
demanding tasks.
When you run Paradox for the first
time, you'll see what looks like a typi-
cal Windows application with a menu
bar and a toolbar (Borland calls its
toolbar a SpeedBar) with buttons for
opening a table, form, query, report,
script, or library, as well as ones for
opening a folder and adding and
deleting folder items.
Forms are the heart of most data-
bases, and designing a form in Para-
dox for Windows is a pleasure. You can
move and resize all of a form's fields,
and more important, you can change a
field's properties by simply hght-click-
ing on it. When you do, you'll see a
pop-up menu with a list of entries, each
of which is a cascading menu, so
choosing one calls a submenu.
Paradox for Windows' main com-
petition In databaseland is Microsoft
Access, and the two have been bat-
tling head to head for about a year.
Both are superb programs with excel-
lent design tools, both are easy to
use, and both were COMPUTE Choice
Award finalists. Our decision for the
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best database came down to a choice
between these two tools, and
because of Its Innovative design,
Paradox edged out Access, which still
rates an honorable mention. In fact,
Paradox for Windows is so well built
that it's actually fun to use.
CLIFTON KARNES
Paradox for Windows 1,0 (Borland
International)
Circle reader service number 332
Other Finalists
Approach 2.1 (Lotus Development}
Circle reader service number 333
FoxPro for Windows (Microsoft)
Circle reader service nurrber 334
Microsoft Access for Windows
(Microsoft)
Circle reader service number 504
SuperBase 2.0 (Software Publishing)
Circle reader service number 335
Q & A for Windows 4.0 (Symantec)
Circle reader service number 336
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WinFax Pro 3.0
In just a few short years, we've
become accustomed to faxing from
our computers. It's remarkable that we
take it for granted — that working as a
fax machine should be just another
function of our computers. Much of
the credit should go to Delrina for its
WinFax Pro.
First released in January 1991,
WinFax has remained the most popu-
lar PC-based fax program and is still
the best overall. The current incarna-
tion, WinFax Pro 3.0, adds annotation
and drawing tools (allowing you to
mark up faxes with text and graphics),
OCR (using Caere's AnyFax pattern
recognition technology and a built-in
spelling checker), fax document man-
agement (letting you categorize, com-
press, save, sort, and search both
incoming and outgoing faxes), an
improved phone book (offering a vari-
ety of description fields, as well as
Import from and export to common file
formats), a cover-page designer (sup-
porting both the Windows Clipboard
and OLE), image processing (featur-
ing antialiasing technology and ran-
dom noise cleanup), scanner support
(including TWAIN compatibility), and
Cover-Your-Fax (providing 100 pro-
fessionally drawn cover pages),
Despite all the features, WinFax
Pro 3.0 is still easy to use. After a rela-
tively painless installation, you simply
switch to the WinFax printer driver and
print your document as though you
were sending it to a printer. WinFax
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intercepts the data and sends it to
your fax/data modem. It's that simple.
An honorable mention goes to
Crosstalk for Windows 2.0. an already-
strong Windows-based communica-
tions program with a greatly improved
interface, (For a complete review of
Crosstalk for Windows 2.0, see the
October 1993 COMPUTE.)
DAVID ENGLISH
WinFax Pro 3.0 (Delrina)
Circle reader service number 337
Other Finalists
America Online for Windows
(America Online)
Circle reader service number 338
WinCIM 1 .0 (CompuServe)
Circle reader service number 345
Crosstalk for Windows 2.0 (DCA)
Circle reader service number 340
InterNAV (General Videotex)
Circle reader service number 339
Eclipse Fax (Phoenix Technology)
Circle reader service number 342
ImagiNation (Sierra On-Llne)
Circle reader service number 343
Norton PC Anywhere for Windows 1 .0
(Symantec)
Circle reader service number 344
DataFAX for Windows
(Trio Information Systems)
Circle reader service number 341
Quicken 3.0 for Windows
Quicken for DOS was a big hit, and
Quicken for Windows is even better.
In fact. Quicken 3.0 for Windows is the
best financial management program
we've seen.
Quicken is a personal financial
manager that, at its heart, is a check-
book program that both manages
your checkbook and prints checks. It
does these things extremely weli, but
there's much more to Quicken 3,0. It
can track your investments and man-
age credit card accounts and trusts,
to name just a few accounts; and it
can print reports that include net
worth, budgets, income and expens-
es, and cash flow. It also keeps track
of tax-deductible contributions, and it
can serve as an accounting package
for most small businesses. Add-on
modules like Quick Invoice and
Quicken Companion can handle
everything from home inventory man-
agement to invoice generation, print-
ing, and tracking.
Quicken's MDI sports a colorful
toolbar with buttons for commonly
used tasks, Each module presents
lots of information, but the forms are
so well designed that they're easy to
grasp and use. And data entry is easy
because almost everywhere the pro-
gram anticipates what you want to do
by searching incrementally and intelli-
gently filling in fields.
Quicken 3.0 keeps its predeces-
sors' motto of Safety First, saving your
data with each entry. And it encour-
ages you to back up your files. Add to
this the ability to remind you of pay-
ments due. the best data entry forms
in the business, and an interface that
improves with each release, and you
have an excellent program.
CLIFTON KARNES
Quicken 3,0 for Windows (Intuit)
Circle reader service number 349
Other Finalists
KIpllnger's CA-Simply Money 1.0
(Computer Associates)
Circle reader service number 346
Microsoft Money (Microsoft)
Circle reader service number 347
Peachtree Accounting for Windows
2.0 (Peachtree Software)
Circle reader service number 348
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Central Point's PC Tools for Windows
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expensive) than its DOS version. It
contains replacements for the Win-
dows desktop and File Manager, a
backup program, data recovery for
trashed disks or files, an antivirus utili-
ty, a system analyzer, a disk op-
timizer, and a schpting language simi-
lar to BASIC. A scheduling program
and some wildly creative but un-
documented screen savers are
thrown in for good measure.
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contains some of [he best features to
be found in tiie product. It's arguably
easier to learn and use thian Program
Manager, and it's demonstrably superi-
or. The best features are Quick-
Launcher and nnultiple desktops.
OuickLauncher lets you add program
or folder names to the System menu
and launch them from there, sort of like
desk accessories on the Macintosh.
ScriptTools, the package's macro
language, is the best such Windows
script language I've seen. PC Tools
has a v/hole range of file recovery pro-
grams. The installation process gives
file recovery top priority. PC Tools for
Windows gives you a really big bang
for the buck.
A close contender for
the COMPUTE Choice
Award for the best utility
w/as Stacker 3.1. An an-
swer for many during the
difficult days following the
release of DOS 6. Stacker
3.1 served to replace Dou-
bleSpace with a faster,
friendlier {and some would
say safer) alternative. It's
difficult to make a decision
between two products so
powerful and so different,
but since PC Tools for
Windows provides a much
wider range of utilities than
Stacker 3,1, we felt the
Central Point Software product should
receive the award and Stacker 3.1 an
honorable mention. Both are excellent
products, however, (A review of PC
Tools for Windows can be found in the
November 1993 COMPUTE. Stacker
3.1 was reviewed in the October 1993
COMPUTE and discussed m "Data
Under Pressure" in the same issue.)
TOM CAMPBELL
PC Tools for Windows
(Central Point Software)
Circle reader service number 350
Other Finalists
Pizazz Pius 4,0
(Application Techniques)
Circle reader service number 355
NETROOM 3 (Helix)
Circle reader service number 354
Dashboard for Windows
(Hewlett-Packard)
Circle reader service number 352
Collage Complete (Inner Media)
Circie reader service number 351
Transom (Metro Software)
Circle reader service number 35S
DynoPage 1.0 (Portfolio)
Circle reader service number 353
QEMM 7,01 (Quarterdeck Office
Systems)
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Circle reader service number 356
Stacker 3.1 (STAC Electronics)
Circle reader service number 357
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Ascend 4.0
I can't Imagine life without Ascend.
There are very few programs I can
say that about, but Ascend is definite-
ly one. If fact, it's probably my most
important tool. Ascend is a Windows-
based personal information manager,
or PIM, And like most PIMs, it man-
ages diverse types of information,
including a phoritized daily task list,
an appointment schedule, calendars,
a master task list, a telephone and
address book, a journal, a database,
and much more.
Ascend was developed by Franklin
Quest, a time management consulting
company that has been teaching time
management techniques and selling
paper-based Franklin Planners for
years. The Franklin method is based
on a top-down approach to time and
task management with the final goal of
inner peace, something most of us
feel is not only worthy and desirable,
but seemingly unattainable.
Ascend's interface is a joy to use.
It's a colorful MDI application, with win-
dows for each module. To make navi-
gating these modules easy, there's a
button bar with one button for each
module. You can customize this button
bar and determine which buttons go
on the bar and in what order.
One of 4.G's best features is drag
and drop. You can drag and drop
data between most modules, and
most modules also support OLE. In
addition, Ascend can make beautiful
printouts of your task list, appoint-
ments, notes, and more on Franklin
Day Planner paper or regular-size
laser paper.
An honorable mention in this cate-
gory goes to Arabesque's ECCO, It
has an innovative design based on
outlines and is both powerful and
easy to use. But with features galore,
power to burn, and its intuitive inter-
face, Ascend wins by a hair. (A full
review of Ascend 4.0 can be found in
the May 1993 issue of COMPUTE.)
CLIFTON KARNES
Ascend 4.0 (Franklin Quest)
Circle reader service number 359
Other Finalists
ECCO Professional
(Arabesque Software)
Circle reader service number 360
ManagePro 2.0 for Windows
(Avantos Performance
Systems)
Circie reader service number 362
Sharkware 1 .0 (CogniTech)
Circle reader service number 364
Lotus Organizer 1.1
(Lotus Development)
Circle reader service number 365
Info Select for Windows
(Micro Logic)
Circle reader service number 361
PackRat 5.0 (Polaris)
Circle reader service number 363
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Visual C-I-+ is an elegant development
environment that comes with a host of
superb programming tools. The heart
of the system is Visual Workbench,
which IS the Windows-based integrat-
ed environmenL It boasts a toolbar for
quick access to common commands;
a syntax-highlighting editor; and a
Tool menu, to which you can add your
own commands.
Another key tool is App Studio,
which you can use to edit all your
resources, including dialog boxes,
icons, cursors, menus, and bitmaps.
The next two major Visual C-i-+ tools
are specifically for C-(-h programmers:
AppWizard, which is a program gener-
ator, and ClassWizard, which handles
all the red tape associated with man-
aging classes and message maps. Ail
of these tools are more than just excel-
lent modules; they're very well integrat-
ed and exceptionally easy to use.
Often the key to successful devel-
opment is a first-rate debugger, and
here. Visual C+h- shines. There's an
integrated debugger, which will suf-
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fice for most tasks, plus a special
Windows edition of CodeView for
heavy-duty jobs,
JUe thing that really won me over
to Visual C++, however, was the small
execulables it produced. The devel-
opment environment is important, but
code quality is the supreme test of a
compiler, and Visual C++ is
tops in this category. Visual
C++ really is next-genera-
tion programming.
CLIFTON KARNES
Microsoft Visual C++
(Microsoft)
Circle reader service number 366
Other Finalists
RoboHELP 2.0 (Blue Sky
Software)
Circle reader service number 370
Borland C++ for OS/2
(Borland International)
Circle reader service number 367
Microsoft Developers'
Network CD (Microsoft)
Circle reader service number 368
Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 (Microsoft)
Circle reader service number 369
WinScope 1 .01 (The Periscope Company)
Circle reader service number 371
Aldus PageMaker 5.0
PageMaker 5.0 reclaims the venera-
ble program's position as king of the
desktop publishing hill. This latest
release addresses nearly every com-
plaint that users had about earlier ver-
sions, as well as adding a host of new
features,
Gone are the quirks, such as prob-
lems with some high-color modes and
a menu that would handle only a limit-
ed number of fonts. Added is a pow-
erful suite of new features and an
Improved interface that can make
page layout easier than ever. Whether
you're publishing a church bulletin or
a national magazine, you'll find this
newest PageMaker has the capabili-
ties you need.
The biggest improvenfient in
PageMaker 5.0 is its ability to open
multiple publications simultaneously,
allowing you to compare documents
or drag and drop elements between
them. Aldus Additions is a set of
macros that add functions such as
automatic drop caps, running headers
and footers, booklet generation, and
page sorting; a new macro language
16 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
lets you create your own Additions.
A floating control palette changes
as you change modes, always keep-
ing the most appropriate tools a
mouse click away. You can now rotate
and skew text and graphics, giving
you new flexibility. And no more boring
black-and-white: PageMaker 5,0 has
built-in support for creating process
color separations and includes a vari-
ety of color libraries from PANTONE,
Trumatch, and others.
The program now has more than
40 import filters, and PANOSE font-
matching technology makes for trou-
ble-free file exchange with other users
of the Windows and Mac versions of
the program,
PageMaker was almost knocked
out of the ring by QuarkXPress, but
version 5.0 brings it back punching. (A
review of PageMaker 5.0 can be found
in the October 1993 COMPUTE.)
OENNY ATKIN
Aldus PageMaker 5.0 (Aldus)
Circle reader service number 372
Other Finalists
Compel (Asymetrix)
Circle reader service number 375
QuarkXPress for Windows 3.1 (Quark)
Circle reader service number 377
Harvard Graphics for Windows 2.0
(Software Publishing)
Circle reader service number 376
WordPerfect Presentations 2.0 for
DOS (WordPerfect)
Circle reader service number 378
Microsoft Publisher 2.0
You can pay more money and get
more features (PageMaker 5.0) or even
pay less money and get more features
(PagePlus), but you can't buy a desk-
top publishing program that's easier to
use than Microsoft Publisher 2.0.
Most desktop publishing programs
are so hard to use that people spend
hours designing a simple newsletter
or brochure. Publisher's PageWizards
can design your newsletters, bro-
chures, banners, greeting cards, and
business forms for you; all
you do is choose the appro-
priate options. For example,
to design a brochure, you
might choose modern style,
side-fold, picture on the front,
and mailed, and Publisher
takes care of the rest.
In addition. Publisher in-
cludes a new online adviser,
called Cue Cards, which pro-
vides step-by-step design
help with the click of a
mouse, and Quick Demos,
which provides onscreen
demonstrations of a variety of
desktop publishing tasks.
This latest version of Pub-
lisher has greatly improved typogra-
phy (you can now hyphenate text and
wrap text around graphic objects) and
a more powerful Word Art (you can
now use this stand-alone special-
effects type program with any
TrueType font). It's also the first
Microsoft application, other than
Visual Basic, to support OLE 2.0.
Microsoft Publisher 2.0 ships with 17
PageWizard design assistants, 35 pro-
fessionally designed templates, 20
TrueType fonts, 100 border designs,
and 125 clip art images. Its power and
ease of use make Publisher a great way
to get started with desktop publishing.
An honorable mention goes to
PagePlus. Although this program's
price fits into the Personal Desktop
Publishing category, its feature set
makes it a real contender in the profes-
sional arena. (See this month's "Prod-
uctivity Choice" for an in-depth look.)
DAVID ENGLISH
Microsoft Publisher 2.0 (Microsoft)
Circle reader service number 379
Other Finalist
PagePlus (Serif)
Circle reader service number 374
CorelDRAW! 4.0
Corel has begun an ambitious effort to
upgrade CorelDRAW! annually and
retain its previous version on the mar-
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One completely new feature in the
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product that makes creating animated
panels for your CorelSHOW! presen-
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CorelDRAW! added pages, allow-
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999 pages. This makes CorelDRAW!
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publishing package ever. Among its
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These enhancements put CorelDRAW!
in competition in virtually every other
software arena,
ROBERT BIXBY
CorelDRAW! 4.0 (Corel)
Circle reader service number 380
Other Finalists
Fractal Design Painter 2,0
(Fractal Design)
Circle reader service number 384
Morph for Windows
(Gryphon Software)
Circle reader service number 3B7
1st Design (GST Software)
Circle reader service number 381
Graphics Works (Micrografx)
Circle reader service number 385
Micrografx Designer 4,0 (Micrografx)
Circle reader service number 383
Pixar One Twenty Eight (Pixar)
Circle reader service number 382
Typestry for Windows (Pixar)
Circle reader service number 388
Visio (Shapeware)
Circle reader service number 389
(magePals (U-Lead Systems)
Circle reader service number 386
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Nobody won. Put yourself in our
place. Considering ail of the problems
people had with DOS 6 and the fact
that there were only a few improve-
ments over DOS 5 (and most of those
in the form of utilities), we felt that we
couldn't in good conscience give it
the COMPUTE Choice Award, A new
version of DOS 6 looms in the near
future, but it's too late to give it the
thoroughgoing testing we'd require to
make sure it didn't have problems as
bad as (or worse than) the current
version.
To be fair, the problems DOS 6
experienced were generally as a
result of improper use of perfectly
functional utilities and commands.
However, a modern operating system
shouldn't lead a user into a quagmire.
GeoWorks Ensemble 2.0 is a huge
improvement in features and power
over its predecessor, but it has been
an insular environment with applica-
tions lacking the kind of innovation
third-party developers would bring. It
was designed for trailing-edge
machines, and its makers no longer
seem interested in competing head to
head with Windows.
Windows NT and NetWare 4.0 are
network operating systems of limited
interest at most to a majority of our
readers.
OS/2 2.1 has proven itself to be a
favorite of techies, at last living up to
its claim of being a better Windows
than Windows and a better DOS than
DOS (see "Personal Productivity" in
this issue for a user-oriented review of
this operating system), but there's a
dark cloud on the horizon. Microsoft is
now free to make alterations in DOS
and Windows that will make future
applications incompatible with OS/2.
So, while version 2.1 is fairly compati-
ble with DOS 6 and Windows
3.1, it looks like a long game
of catch-up for OS/2 and its
users in the future.
Though we decline to
choose an operating system
or environment for the COM-
PUTE Choice Award, you
shouldn't hesitate to employ
any of these products for
your personal use, as
appropriate to your equip-
ment and your work.
ROBERT BIXBY
Finalists
GeoWorks Ensemble 2.0
(GeoWorks)
Circle reader service number 391
OS/2 2.1 (IBM)
Circle reader service number 393
DOS 6 (Microsoft)
Circle reader service number 390
Windows NT (Microsoft)
Circle reader service number 394
NetWare 4.0 (Novell)
Circle reader service number 392
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Our winner in this category is the Dell
466/M. But as often happens in the
computer industry, that model was
superseded after less than a year on
the market. However, its replacement,
the Dell OptiPlex 466/MX, embodies
all the qualities that made the 466/M a
COMPUTE Choice Award winner —
and packs some new innovations as
well.
The blazing 486DX2/66 system
was the fastest that we tested in our
recent 486 Test Lab, and its local-bus
video turned in one of the fastest 3D-
Bench results we've ever seen, We
chose the Dell 4B6/M because it
sported a top-of-the-line feature set at
a midrange price. Along with its fast
processor, it also has an easily updat-
able Flash-ROM BIOS; automatic port
sensing (if you plug in a modem card
at COM2, for instance, it will remap
the second motherboard port to be
COM3); a case which can be opened
without a screwdriver; five open slots
and five drive bays, allowing for plenty
of expansion; and sockets for 72-pin
SIMMs, which greatly simplify RAM
expansion. Dell will install and config-
ure any software and peripherals you
purchase with the system, making it a
great plug-and-play solution for the
novice PC user.
The 466/MX has lightning-fast
motherboard-based local-bus video,
just like the 466/M. However, it also
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Circle reader service number 395
Other Finalists
Evolution IV (ALR)
Circle reader service number 396
Quadra 840AV (Apple)
Circle reader service number 398
Gateway 2000 4DX2/66V
(Gateway 2000)
Circle reader service number 397
rechargeable battery, as well as run
from four ordinary alkaline AA bat-
teries. The hard disk model can run as
long as five hours on the recharge-
able battery or use four lithium AA
batteries.
The OmniBook is nothing short of a
technical marvel, with its light weight,
compact size, all-PCMCIA storage,
and small hideaway mouse. If you can
live with the nonbacklit screen, the
OmniBook is the state of the art for
high-tech traveling. (A review of the
OmniBook can be found in the
October 1993 COMPUTE.)
DAVID ENGLISH
Last year, Gateway introduced the
Handbook, packing a C & T PC-CHIP
processor, a 40MB hard drive, and a
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Gateway 2000
Handbook 486
The OmniBook 300 sounds almost too
good to be true: a notebook computer
that runs Windows, Word for Win-
dows, and Excel from a
ROM card; weighs only 2.9
pounds; and gets an in-
credible nine hours of bat-
tery life with continuous use.
It even includes a built-in
mouse that pops out when
needed and slides back for
traveling. It's the closest
thing yet to a road warrior's
dream machine.
The trade-off is a non-
backlit screen. Fortunately,
it's one of the best reflective
LCD screens around. In
bright to moderately bright light, you
shouldn't have any trouble reading it,
but in extremely dim light, you'll have
to refrain from computing altogether
or seek out the nearest light.
The OmniBook comes in two mod-
els: one with a 40MB hard drive and
one with a 10MB Flash-RAM card,
Both storage devices are automatical-
ly compressed by the built-in Dou-
bleSpace compression (essentially
doubling the capacity of either card),
and both are PCMCIA cards (making
them easy to upgrade later on). The
hard drive model gives you more stor-
age (80MB versus 20MB) for less
money ($1,950 versus $2,375), but
the Flash-RAM model can run as long
as nine hours on the OmniBook's
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backlit screen in a 2.9-pound pack-
age. Its portability made it an instant
hit, but its CGA screen and 286-com-
patible processor were underwhelm-
ing in a market that had standardized
on VGA and was already giving up on
the 386.
Gateway responded with the
Handbook 486, which maintains the
original Handbook's 2.9-pound weight
and compact 9.75- x 5.9- x 1.6-inch
size, but gives you the computing
power you expect on a desktop. This
subnotebook is available in two mod-
els, one with a 25-MHz SL-enhanced
486SX and an 80MB hard drive for
$1,495 and a portable powerhouse
with a 40-MHz SL-enhanced 486DX2
chip and a 130MB drive for SI ,995.
The Handbook 486 has a 7.9-inch
backlit VGA display; a PCMCIA Type
II slot; parallel, serial, and PS/2 ports;
and a small stick-type pointing device
next to the keyboard. The keyboard is
almost full-size, only an inch smaller
than a typical AT keyboard, and has a
quiet touch that lets you take notes
almost anywhere.
Both models ship with 4MB of
RAM, expandable to 20MB. No floppy
drive is included, but a transfer cable
is included for use with Interink and
your desktop PC.
The Handbook 486 and HP
OmniBook 300 are both award-
deserving portables. The Handbook
has 486 power, a backlit screen, and
more storage; the OmniBook has
incredible battery life and the innova-
tive pop-out mouse. With choices like
these, the real winner is you.
DENNY ATKIN
OmniBook 300 (Hewlett-Packard)
Circle reader service number 400
Gateway 2000 Handbook 486
(Gateway 2000)
Circle reader service number 399
Other Finalists
Canon NoteJet (Canon)
Circle reader service number 401
Compaq Contura (Compaq)
Circle reader service number 402
Gateway 2000 Colorbook
(Gateway 2000)
Circle reader service number 403
ThinkPad 720C (IBM)
Circle reader service number 406
WinBook (Micro Electronics)
Circle reader service number 408
NCR 3150 (NCR)
Circle reader service number 404
UltraLite Versa 2,5C
(NEC Technologies)
Circle reader service number 407
Satellite TigoOC (Toshiba)
Circie reader service number 405
Sound Blaster
DigitalEdge CD and
Fusion DoubleCD-16
Less than a month after the Multi-
media PC Marketing Council an-
nounced the new Level 2 MPC specifi-
cations, both Media Vision and
Creative Labs introduced inexpensive
Level 2 upgrade kits. In keeping with
the Level 2 specs, both include a 16-
bit sound card capable of recording
and playing bacl<; CD-quality sound, as
well as a double-speed CD-ROM drive
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that can play Kodak Photo CDs. Both
upgrade kits are terrific buys, so we
decided to let them share the award
for the best multimedia hardware.
Creative Labs' Sound Blaster
DigttalEdge CD includes a Sound
Blaster 16 ASP. a double-speed multi-
session CD-ROM drive, The Software
Toolworks Multimedia Encyclopedia.
Microsoft Bookshelf. Macromedia
Action!, a microphone, and speakers.
Media Vision's Fusion DoubleCD-16
includes a Pro AudioSpectrum 16
sound card, a double-speed NEC CD-
ROM drive (model 55J), Compton's
Interactive Encyclopedia for Windows,
Battle Chess Enhanced, Arthur's
Teacher Trouble, and The 7th Guest.
How do you choose between
them? It depends on what you need in
an upgrade kit. If price is important,
you're more likely to get a better deal
with the Fusion DQubleCD-16, which
lists for S699.00 (internal) and $799.00
(external), as compared to the
DigitaiEdge kit, which lists
for $999.95 (internal). On
the other hand, if you pre-
fer a CD-ROM drive that
doesn't need a caddy,
need the microphone and
speakers, and would like
the option of upgrading
your sound card to
General MIDI, you might
want to choose the
Creative Labs package.
The selection of CD-ROM
titles might also sway your
vote one way or the other
Either way, you'll be
ready for the more power-
ful Level 2 multimedia
applications that will be
appearing in 1994.
DAVID ENGLISH
Sound Blaster DigitaiEdge CD
(Creative Labs)
Circle reader service number 409
Fusion DoubleCD-16 (Media Vision)
Circle reader service number 410
Other Finalists
Ultrasound (Advanced Gravis)
Circle reader service number 415
Pro 16 Multimedia System
(Media Vision)
Circle reader service number 414
MultiSpin74-1 CD-ROM
(NEC Technologies)
Circle reader service number 412
Pioneer 4x Speed Multiple CD
Changer (Pioneer)
Circle reader service number 413
Hello! Music (Yamaha)
Circle reader service number 41 1
YST-M10 Speakers (Yamaha)
Circle reader service number 416
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Video Toaster 4000
NewTek's original Video Toaster
helped bring professional desktop
video to the masses. The new Video
Toaster 4000 literaliy brings Holly-
wood special-effects capabilities to
the desktop.
The Video Toaster 4000 is a large
expansion card that fits in a Com-
modore Amiga 4000 computer. The sys-
tem can be run as a stand-alone or
interfaced with your Windows or Mac
system using NewTek's ToasterLink
software. The board sports a 35-ns
character generator, two broadcast-
quality high-resolution 24-bit frame
buffers, a four-input production video
switcher, and a still store/frame grabber.
The Toaster's toolkit offers every-
thing you'll need to create impres-
sive — or, if you're not careful, garish —
videos. The Digital Video Effects (DVE)
generator can wrap video on objects,
and flip, spin, tumble, or warp live
video. Most impressive are the animat-
ed wipes, which let you use, for exam-
ple, an animated golfer's swing to tran-
sition between two video sources.
But the biggest selling point of the
Video Toaster 4000 is Lightwave 3D
3.0, the incredible 3-D rendering pro-
gram that's available only with the
Toaster. Rather than trying to describe
all its capabilities— such as haze,
underwater effects, detailed texture
mapping, and even lens-flares — I'll
instead suggest you watch the TV
programs "SeaQuest DSV" and
"Babylon 5." Both shows use Light-
Wave-generated special effects
instead of traditional models.
For under $6,000 ($2,395 if you
aiready have an Amiga system), you
can own a special-effects system that's
good enough for prime time. If the
COMPUTE Choice Award isn't enough
to convince you that this is the desktop
video system of choice, consider this;
In 1993 the Video Toaster won an
Emmy Award for technical excellence,
DENNY ATKIN
Video Toaster 4000 (NewTek)
Circle reader service number 417
Other Finalists
MGA (Matrox Electronic Systems)
Circle reader service number 419
FlexScan (Nanao)
Circle reader service number 418
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Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4
Hewlett-Packard consistently offers
great printers at incredible prices, and
the LaserJet 4 is no exception. It's the
best LaserJet ever, and it's
the best value Hewlett-
Packard has offered so far.
With a suggested retail price
of $1,759 (if you look around,
you can find one for around
$1,400), the LaserJet 4
weighs in at $200 less than
the LaserJet III. For that price,
the LaserJet 4 gives you four
times the resolution, 37 more
fonts, much improved print
quality, and over twice the
speed. If you need PostScript,
you can have it for the $499
price of the PostScript Level II
upgrade.
Just when you thought print-
ers couldn't get any faster.
Hewlett-Packard comes
through again. The company's Printer
Command Language 5 (PCL 5), the
ianguage used in LaserJet Ills and 4s,
is already faster than most other lan-
guages — especiaily the popular
PostScript. But the addition of the
TrueType font rasterizer and Windows
TrueType fonts means that you don't
have to wait for your computer to
downioad fonts.
The LaserJet 4 comes with one of
the fastest processors in the business:
Intel's 20-MHz 80960 RISC processor.
It also has increased data compres-
sion so less data has to be chan-
neled, Hewlett-Packard's new Bi-
Tronic bidirectional port transfers data
at up to 156 kilobytes per second. The
only thing that will hold back the
LaserJet 4 is the speed of your com-
puter. (A complete review of the Hew-
lett-Packard LaserJet 4 can be found
in the August 1993 COMPUTE.)
WILLIAM HARREL
Fatty Bear and his friends tiove a lot to do before Kayla wal<es up.
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decorations. The puppy's getting into mischief, and the garage door
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(Hewlett-Packard)
Circle reader service number 420
Other Finalists
Primera (Fargo Electronics)
Circle reader service number 423
Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 1200C
(Hewlett-Packard)
Circle reader service number 422
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4L
(Hewlett-Packard)
Circie reader service number 421
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Smart One 1442FX
Best Data Products' Smart One
1442FX fax/data modem earns its
COMPUTE Chioice Award by packing
superior performance at a bargain
price. Based on the popular Rockwell
modem chip set, the 1442FX provides
14,400-bps transfers in both fax and
data modes. It supports all of the pop-
ular error correction and data com-
pression modes, such as V.32bis and
CCITT V.17 fax protocol. Connected
to a similar modem, the 1442FX can
manage transfers of up to 57,600 bps
when transferring raw text with com-
pression active. That's 192 times
faster than a 300-bps modem,.
The sturdy white plastic case is of
the "sit under the phone" variety; it
sports eight status lights on the front.
At just under two pounds with power
connector, it's light enough to pack
along with your laptop (and it's much
less expensive than battery-powered
pocket modems of similar capability).
Although the modem retails for
$319, it can be found for well under
$200 at discount retailers. At that
price, can you afford not to upgrade
to 14,400-bps speed?
DENNY ATKIN
Smart One 1442FX
(Best Data Products)
Circle reader service number 424
Other Finalists
PCfvlCiA Modem with X Jack
(Megahertz)
Circle reader service number 426
rvlD-5024 CD-ROM Drive (Texel)
Circle reader service number 425
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Star Control II
Some games are like Tetris. In just a
few minutes, you can learn the rules
and know 80 percent of what you
24 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
need to know in order to play. The rest
is refining the rules and gaining the
physical dexterity to carry them out.
Star Control II is an altogether dif-
ferent kind of game. With over 500
star systems and 3000 planets to
explore and 18 alien races to con-
verse with, this is no cha!lenge-you-to-
a-game-or-two-over-the-lunch-break
kind of game. If you like intricately
involved plots with rich details that
have to be plotted on paper, this is
the game for you.
It also helps if you enjoy science
fiction. Star Control II is the best
attempt, so far, at putting an epic sci-
ence-fiction novel onto disk. No other
program conveys as well the com-
plexity of space travel and the variety
of life forms we're likely to encounter
when we begin to venture beyond the
confines of our own neighborhood.
How does it play as a game?
Despite the complexity — or perhaps
because of it — you're drawn into the
narrative. The graphics and sound are
greatly improved over those in the
original 1990 version. The arcade ele-
ments are well integrated and very
playable. The bonus game, Super
fvlelee, adds to the combat side of the
scenario of aliens as either friends or
foes.
This year, an honorable mention
goes to Novalogic's Comanche
Maximum Overkill, which features
some of the most realistic polygon
graphics this side of Hollywood.
(Comanche Maximum Overkill is dis-
cussed in "Going Vertical" in COM-
PUTE, June 1993.)
DAVID ENGLISH
Star Control II (Accolade)
Circle reader service number 427
Other Finalists
Prince of Persia 2
(Braderbund Software)
Circle reader service number 432
The Lost Vikings
(Interplay Productions)
Circle reader service number 433
Microsoft Arcade Pack (Microsoft)
Circle reader service nur^ber 431
Comanche Maximum Overkill
(Novalogic)
Circle reader service number 429
Lemmings 2; The Tribes (Psygnosis)
Circle reader service number 430
Flashback (Strategic Simulations)
CIrcie reader service number 428
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Microsoft Flight
Simulator 5.0
Chances are that you've seen or
played Microsoft Flight Simulator. It
has long been one of the most popu-
lar entertainment programs for the PC.
But this is a new dawn for flight simu-
lators. Version 5.0 takes the realistic
flight characteristics of earlier releas-
es and adds photorealist Super VGA
scenery.
The game nov^ runs in either 320 x
400 or 640 x 480, 256-color modes.
The graphics are nothing short of
spectacular — glancing at the instru-
ment panel, you'd swear that you
were looking at live video from inside
a Cessna. Things look much better
outside the plane as well, with
smooth, Gouraud-shaded aircraft and
incredibly detailed scenery. This ver-
sion actually wraps digitized pictures
onto the scenery — taking off from
Chicago's Meigs field is one of the
most realistic experiences you'll
encounter on today's PCs.
Sound has been improved as well,
with digitized sound support for popu-
lar 8- and 16-bit sound cards. Even
the skies have been upgraded, with
beautiful orange gradient sunsets and
clouds that gradually flicker Into exis-
tence as you fly into them.
This isn't a shoot-'em-up game —
most of the fun here Is in really learn-
ing how to fly a plane and in simply
flying around and looking at the pretty
scenery. And there's plenty to choose
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Microsoft Fligfit Simulator 5.0
(Microsoft)
Circle reader service number 434
Other Finalists
Aces over Europe (Dynamix)
Circle reader service number 435
Car and Driver (Electronic Arts)
Circle reader service number 437
Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space
(Interplay Productions)
Circle reader serifice number 436
X-Wing (LucasArts Games)
Circle reader service number 443
El Fish (Maxis Software)
Circle reader service number 433
SimCity 2000 (Maxis Software)
Circle reader service number 441
Empire Deluxe (New World
Computing)
Circle reader service number 439
Rules of Engagement 2 (Omnitrend)
Circle reader service number 440
Strike Commander (Origin)
Circle reader service number 442
Betrayal at Krondor
A captivating story line, fantastic
graphics, and special effects make
Betrayal at Krondor, Dynamix's first
attempt at fantasy role-playing, tower
above the genre. Based on Raymond
E. Feist's Riftwar series, the game
picks up where Feist's latest book,
Darkness at Sethanon. ends. It uses
many of the recurring characters and
locations from the series, so those
familiar with the series will immediate-
ly fall into the action.
This complex, character-nch story
unfolds as a series of nine individual
chapters, the plot advancing only
upon completion of specific goals in
each one. These miniquests vary in
size, difficulty, and clarity of mission.
Segmenting the story this way gives
great range to the gameplay— it's as if
you're getting nine adventures in one.
Unlike in traditional role-playing
games, you inherit full-bodied charac-
ters with unique personalities, rich
pasts, and hopefully, prosperous
futures. Rather than control every fiber
of their beings, you merely make deci-
sions — their overall strength of char-
26 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
Circle reader service number 450
Fables & Fiends: Legend of Kyrandia,
Book I (Virgin Games)
Circle reader service number 448
The 7th Guest (Virgin Games)
Circle reader service number 453
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acter determines whether the results
of their actions will be positive.
Those unacquainted with Feist's
complex fantasy world will have trou-
ble following the flood of characters,
race names, and locations. The manu-
al helps, but Feist's prose is so thick
with atmosphere and imagination that
jumping headfirst into the fray can be
overwhelming. Once you understand
the background, you can really ap-
preciate this game. Fired by literary
passion and uncommon intelligence.
Betrayal at Krondor approaches a
new level of realism and enjoyment for
computer fantasy role-playing games.
(See this month's "Entertainment
Choice" for a full review of Betrayal at
Krondor.)
LucasArts' magnificent Day of the
Tentacle, a B-movie science-fiction
parody that skirts the lunatic fringe of
comedy adventure, received an hon-
orable mention in this category. (Look
for a full review of Day of the Tentacle
in this issue of COMPUTE.)
SCOTT A. MAY
Betrayal at Krondor (Dynamix)
Circle reader service number 444
Otiier Finalists
Syndicate (Electronic Arts)
Circle reader service number 452
Alone in the Dark
(Interplay Productions)
Circle reader service number 445
Eric the Unready
(Legend Entertainment)
Circle reader service number 447
Day of the Tentacle
(LucasArts Games)
Circle reader service number 446
Might and Magic: Darkside of Xeen
(New World Computing)
Circle reader service number 451
Inca (Sierra On-Line)
Circle reader service number 449
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone
Tomorrow (Sierra On-line)
IndyCar Racing
The smell of tires burning — that's all
that's missing from IndyCar Racing.
The texture-mapped graphics in this
driving game are incredibly realistic,
down to the decals on the cars and
the skid marks on the curves.
You race on the streets of the Long
Beach Gran Prix, the oval at Michigan
International Speedway, and a num-
ber of other tracks, against well-
known race drivers. Rain, wind, and
air temperature all affect car handling.
If you want to get your hands greasy,
you can custom-tune your own car in
the dyno-equipped garage. Beginner
features such as a visible groove
which shows the best line through
curves will get you started; then you
can switch to full realism for a serious
challenge. Once you perfect your
si^ilis, you can play a human opponent
over a modem connection.
After the race is over (or after a
spectacular crash complete with
wisps of smoke), you can watch a
video replay. Tfiis game has more
replay options than "Wide V^/orld of
Sports" — there are views from an
overhead blimp, cameras around the
track, the car's cockpit, and even the
front wheel of the car.
With smooth gameplay, realistic
graphics, great sound, and incredible
attention to detail, IndyCar Racing cap-
tures the checkered flag with ease.
DENNY ATKIN
IndyCar Racing (Papyrus Publishing}
Circle reader seri'ice number 454
Other Finalists
Links Banff Springs Course
(Access Software)
Circle reader service number 457
Front Page Sports Football Deluxe
(Dynamix)
Circle reader service number 455
Jordan in Flight (Electronic Arts)
Circle reader service number 456
World Circuit (MicroProse)
Circle reader service number 460
Microsoft Golf — fvlullimedia Version
(Microsoft)
Circle reader service number 458
Tony La Russa Baseball II
(Strategic Simulations)
Circle reader service number 459
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Arthur's Teacher Trouble
Arthur's Teacher Trouble brings Marc
Brown's children's book to the comput-
er screen with musical accompani-
ment, interesting animated effects, and
a voice to tell the story.
Although the product is aimed at
readers aged 6 to 10, you can have
the story read. In that case you see
the text from Brown's story highlighted
onscreen as it's read in Arthur's voice.
Children can read along, recognize
the w/ords, and follow the animated
action as Arthur and his friends strug-
gle through Mr. Ratburn's third-grade
class and prepare for the school's big
September Spell-a-thon.
All this happens when you choose
to play inside the story. Doing so
takes you to an interactive mode
which brings the elements onscreen
to life when you click on them. Each
screen is a page out of Brown's book,
and the animated illustrations fairly
duplicate those in the small bound
copy included with the software.
At every turn, the reader gets Intro-
duced to subtle humor and imaginative
activities that will delight children and
charnn adults. Arthur teaches as it
entertains and lets children become
players in the storybooks they read.
The innovation and kid-oriented fun
of Snap Dragon from MECC earned it
an honorable mention in this category.
CAROL ELLISON
Arthur's Teacher Trouble
(Brgderbund Software)
Circle reader service number 461
Other Finalists
Just Grandma and Me
(Broderbund Software)
Circle reader service numiDer 465
Kid Pix (Brederbund Software)
Circle reader service number 466
Bailey's Book House (Edmark)
Circie reader service number 462
Millie's Math House (Edmark)
Circle reader service number 467
Scooter Magic Castle (Electronic Arts)
Circle reader service number 469
Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise
(Humongous Entertainment)
Circle reader service number 463
Putt Putt Joins the Parade
(Humongous Entertainment)
Circle reader service number 468
Snap Dragon (MECC)
Circle reader service number 470
Follow the Reader (Walt Disney
Computer Software)
Circle reader service number 464
28 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
Kid CAD
Few programs captured the editors'
imaginations more immediately than
Kid CAD. When Davidson representa-
tives came to demonstrate it for us
shortly before its release, we all enthu-
siastically anticipated playing with it.
Kid CAD is basically a computgr-
aided design program for creating
houses and other structures using
predesigned building materials. It fea-
tures three environnnents: the city, the
town, and the farm. You can build with
various materials and use many differ-
ent kinds of roofs. The program
includes furniture for inside the home
(yes, even bathroom fixtures). Have a
ball creating a house that looks just
like yours or put your creativity to work
to design a house shaped like a swan
or the number 2. You can also turn
your imagination loose on the environ-
ment with landscaping tools that allow
you to place shrubs and trees. Pets
and people complete the scene.
The best part of Kid CAD (and the
thing that makes it so immediately
engaging) is that it represents your
structures in three dimensions. You can
move your perspective on your project,
so you can see it from all sides.
And, after you've built your struc-
ture, what could be more fun that blast-
ing it to smithereens? You can destroy
your meticulously created edifice with
bombs, laser beams, a lawn mower, or
a bulldozer (save it to disk first, though,
so you can blow it up again later).
We couldn't let The Animals! go by
without an honorable mention, It's like
a multimedia encyclopedia of the liv-
ing world,
ROBERT BIXBY
Kid CAD (Davidson and Associates)
Circle reader service number 471
Other Finalists
Rock & Bach Studio (Binary Zoo)
Circle reader service number 480
Wild Science Arcade (Binary Zoo)
Circle reader service number 489
Island of Dr. Brain
(Bright Star Technology)
Circle reader service number 475
Lost Secret of the Rainforest
(Bright Star Technology)
Circle reader service number 477
Pepper's Adventures in Time
(Bright Star Technology)
Circle reader service number 479
Turbo Science
(Bright Star Technology)
Circle reader service number 487
Where in Space Is Carmen Sandiego?
(Brederbund Software)
Circle reader service number 488
The Incredible Machine (Dynamix)
Circle reader service number 483
Eagle Eye Mysteries (Electronic Arts)
Circle reader service number 473
Science Adventure II
(Knowledge Adventure)
Circle reader service number 472
Time Riders in American History
(The Learning Company)
Circle reader service number 485
Treasure Cove
(The Learning Company)
Circle reader service number 486
My Own Stories (MECC)
Circle reader service number 478
Storybook Weaver (MECC)
Circle reader service num.ber 481
European Racers 1 .0
(Revell-Monogram)
Circle reader service number 474
The Animals!
(The Software Toolworks)
Circle reader service number 484
Stunt Island
(Walt Disney Computer Software)
Circle reader sen/ice number 482
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Multimedia Encyclopedia
Quite simpfy, Microsoft Encarta
Multimedia Encyclopedia is one of the
best multimedia applications we've
seen. Whiile the 25,000 articles that
Microsoft has taken from Funk &
Wagnalls Encyclopedia may not be as
strong as the 33,000 articles contained
in The New Grolier Multinaedia Ency-
clopedia, Microsoft has added so much
additional information and organized
the material so well that Encarta is easi-
ly the most browsable and usable of all
the multimedia encyclopedias. Fully
half the CD-ROM is made up of images
and audio, with another 10 percent de-
voted to animations and videos,
Encarta improves on the multiple-
path approach found in the other CD-
ROM encyclopedias by offering a more
logical structure. The overriding struc-
ture for Encarta is its 93 categories and
84 subcategories. Once in a subcate-
gory, it's easy to view a full list of all the
entries in that subcategory, browse
each entry in alphabetical order, or
switch to a new category or subcate-
gory. By stressing a categorical organ-
ization, Microsoft has recognized how
we learn best: by exploring a group of
associated ideas and then jumping to
a related group of associated ideas.
We could go on and on about the
gems of wisdom you'll discover as you
explore the recesses of Encarta. Suffice
it to say that if you're the type of person
who can spend hours in a library mov-
ing from one reference book to another,
this is the one product that will make it
worth your while to buy a CD-ROM
drive and sound card. It's that good.
{See the September 1993 issue of
COMPUTE for a full review of Encarta.)
DAVID ENGLISH
Microsoft Encarta Multimedia
Encyclopedia (Microsoft)
Circle reader service number 490
Other Finalists
Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia
{Compton's NewMedia)
Circle reader service number 492
Global Explorer 1.0
(DeLorme Mapping)
Circle reader service number 496
EZCosmos for Windows
(Future Trends Software)
Circle reader service number 495
The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclope-
dia (Grolier Electronic Publishing)
Circle reader service number 497
Information U.S.A. (INFOBUSINESS)
Circle reader service number 498
Undersea Adventure
(Knowledge Adventure)
Circle reader service number 502
Microsoft Dinosaurs for Windows
(Microsoft)
Circle reader service number 499
Musical Instruments for Windows
(Microsoft)
Circle reader service number 501
COMPUTERWORKS
(Software Marketing)
Circle reader service number 493
Body Illustrated: The Anatomical
Guide (Spirit of Discovery)
Circle reader service number 491
Distant Suns 2,0 for Windows
(Virtual Reality Laboratories)
Circle reader service number 494
VistaPro 3,0
(Virtual Reality Laboratories)
Circle reader service number 503
Dual-Scan Passive Matrix
Displays
If you've felt torn between stunning-
but-expensive active matrix notebook
displays on the one hand and less-
expensive- but-hard er-to-look-at
monochrome or passive matrix dis-
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Now you have another option — dual-
scan passive matrix displays. With
greater contrast and superior bright-
ness, dual-scan displays look much
better than conventional passive
matrix displays, yet they use less
power and cost considerably less
than active matrix displays.
Part of the dual-scan performance
boost comes from the screen itself.
While active matrix displays use a
transistor for each pixel and conven-
tional passive matrix displays use a
transistor for every eight pixels, dual-
scan displays use a transistor for
every three pixels. Dual-scan perfor-
mance depends also on the video
chip. In the Gateway Colorbook, a
Cirrus Logic 6235 16-bit local-bus
chip can take credit for impressive
dual-scan performance.
Viewed from an angle, a cfual-scan
color screen still isn't as clear and easy
to look at as an active matrix screen,
but if you viewed a dual-scan screen
straight on, you might like it even better
than some active matrix screens.
In addition to Gateway, Toshiba is
already using dual-scan screens, in
its Satellite T1950CS. And as other
companies inevitably adopt this
impressive, cost-effective technology,
who knows? Monochrome notebook
displays may . . . fade away entirely.
From the standpoints of both cost
and performance, dual-scan passive
matrix technology is bound to appeal
to COMPUTE'S readers. Hence, we
have selected it as the best techno-
logical advance of the year.
MIKE HUDNALL
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EPA Energy Standard
IBM Continuous Speech Server
Microsoft at Work
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TEST LAB
Edited by Mike Hudnall
Reviews by William Harrel
Computer pundits have hailed
1993 as the year of the 600-
dpi laser printer. While it's
true that the high resolutions
of these souped-up toner-spread-
ers do produce sharp graphics
and halftones, if ail you print is text
and an occasional line-art image,
don't let the hoopla obscure the
reality of your needs, A 300-dpi
printer will serve you just fine,
thank you, and it will put much
less stress on your pocketbook.
Unfortunately (or fortunately,
depending on your politics),
not all 300-dpi lasers are creat- "
ed equal. Tfiey differ widely in
cost, speed, options, and
yes, even print quality. This
may indeed be the year of
high-resolution printers, but it
is also a great time to find ter-
rific buys on 300-dpi models.
Choosing a laser printer a
few years ago was much easi-
er than it is today. Then, you
had only two standards to
pick from: a Hewlett-Packard
LaserJet for Printer Com-
mand Language (PCL) com-
patibility or an Apple Laser- _
Writer for PostScript All the
others in the printer market did
their best to make comparable
products, competing by offering
more features at lower prices.
Nowadays, good 300-dpi printers
abound.
Another first for 1993 is that—
if you shop around — you can buy
a 300-dpi printer on the street for
under S500. Printer prices, like
those of everything else in the
computer and peripherals arena,
are continuing to plunge. But you
usually get what you pay for.
Often {but not always), the econo-
my models are slow, print quality
is lacking, and options are nil. A
couple of hundred dollars can
mean the difference between a
printer that actually fits your
needs and another fraught with
frustration and limitations.
One criterion for this review is
36 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
that the printer cost less than
SI ,000. Most of the machines
reviewed here will suit most smalls
office needs. However, we did
ask the manufacturers to equip
the printers with at least 2MB of
RAM, which is not included in the
$1,000 limit.
Only the HP LaserJet 4L did
not require a RAM upgrade. It
ships with 1MB (most of the oth-
ers ship with 512K) and the abili-
ty to compress data, which
made the factory configuration
more than sufficient for our tests.
The Okidata OL400e ships with
512K, but it also compresses
'It is a great
time to
find terrific buys
on 300-dpi
models/'
data. It completed all but our
most memory-intensive test. After
we added 1MB of RAM, bringing
it up to 1 .5MB, there was nothing
we couldn't get it to do. Depend-
ing on the printer, the others
require extra expense to equip
them to print a full page of text
and graphics.
Due primarily to font-handling
options, printer languages were
once a very important considera-
tion in buying a printer. A few
years ago, you needed a Post-
Script printer to take advantage of
scalable outline font technology.
Today's software solutions, such
as Adobe Type Manager (ATM)
and Windows' TrueType, have tak-
en on much of the font-rendering
burden. No longer is it necessary
for a printer to support scalable
fonts to print text at all weights and
sizes from font outlines,
The printers reviewed here use
Hewlett-Packard's PCL, the lan-
guage found in LaserJets (the Tex-
as Instruments printer provides
both PCL and PostScript), How-
ever, some use PCL 4, the lan-
guage found in HP Series II
devices (IIP IID, and so on), And
others use PCL 5, the standard
used in LaserJet Ills and 4s.
The differences between
these two versions are significant.
PCL 4, for example, does not sup-
port scalable fonts. To get differ-
ent sizes, weights, and styles,
you must send a separate font
file to the printer for each
^ one.
If you use Windows, font
scaling is not a problem — it's
built in. However, most DOS
applications cannot scale
fonts. Instead, you must keep
a separate soft font file on
your hard disk for each style,
size, and weight you want to
use. Doing so eats up valua-
ble disk real estate and slows
printing.
Another drawback of PCL
4 is limited print quality. PCL
4 does not, for example,
iH print good halftone screens,
and it cannot print reverse
type (white type on a black back-
ground). The choice between a
printer with PCL 4 and one with
PCL 5 seems clear.
The only reason you really
need PostScript is to print Post-
Script graphics (which are the for-
mats used by many clip art pack-
ages) or to proof output intended
for imagesetters (typesetting
equipment), color-proofing print-
ers, and slide recorders.
Printer engines are rated at pag-
es per minute (ppm), such as 4,
6, 8, and 10 ppm. The most com-
mon printer engines are built by
Canon. However, all the ppm rat-
ing really measures is how fast
the engine churns sheets of pa-
per through the machine, which
says nothing about how quickly
the printer's processor rasterizes
them. Also important to printer
speed are the amount of RAM it
contains and ttie speed of ttie
processor. Most of the printers
reviewed here hiave 16-MHz proc-
essors, whicti are quickly becom-
ing [he slowest in the industry to-
day but are quite adequate for
most desktop environments.
To test these printers, I first
judged how easy they are to set
up and use. I then ran a series of
real-world tests, which included
four documents: a 20-page Micro-
soft Word for Windows file, a 4-
page Aldus PageMaker newslet-
ter, a full-page CorelDRAW! draw-
ing, and an Adobe Photoshop
gray-scale photograph. The
tests were designed to gauge
speed and test print quality —
which are, after all, the most
important considerations v/hen
buying a printer.
The tests were performed with
Windows Print Manager turned
off so that my 486/33 would
dump the print data directly to the
printer, i began each timing
when I clicked on OK and ended
it when the final page reached
the output tray. The accompany-
ing graphs show you the results
of these tests.
The results are interesting, as
well as valuable if speed is a fac-
tor in your purchasing decision.
In addition to these test results,
this month's Test Lab includes
reviews of each product, a table
of features so that you can com-
pare these printers head to
head, and a sidebar with sugges-
tions for buying a printer. Read
on. Surely there's a printer here
that can meet your needs.
WILLIAM HARREL
•brother HL-6T— SB95 suggested
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^RP for MB-GOO memory upgrade
board with 0MB, $319 SRP lor MB-
620 board witb 2MB, 5699 SRP (or
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BROTHER HL-6T
Brother International's entry in the
economy printer market — the
HL-6T— is one of the fastest print-
ers reviewed. It turned in second-
or third-place times on all four of
my tests. Setting the printer up
requires a minimum amount of
fuss, and the documentation is
clear; you'll be ready to go in no
time. Simply slide the combina-
tion toner-developer cartridge
into the front of the printer, and
you're off and running.
The printer is light and relative-
ly small, capable of fitting neatly
on most desktops. Built around
Canon's 6-ppm engine, the HL-
6T resembles LaserMaster's Win-
Printer, which is a popular high-
resolution printer. One thing I
don't like about the HL-6T's de-
sign is that the input and output
trays extend from the front of the
machine, causing them to take
up about twice as much room as
they should. Also, the front-mount-
ed lid is a little flimsy. It's too easy
to close it improperly, which
could damage the printer.
Instead of POL 5, the HL-6T
uses PCL 4, emulating the Laser-
Jet IIP; so it has some limitations,
such as an inability to print
reverse type. To get around this
problem, you have to create
graphics and import them into
your documents — a hassle. How-
ever, print quality is good. The
Photoshop halftone I printed on
the HL-6T is one of the best. Text
{though a bit heavier from this
printer than from some of the oth-
er printers) is crisp and clean.
Both small and large type print
well. And the CorelDRAW! draw-
ing, which contains a graduated
fountain-fill background, looks
good. There is minimal banding
in the continuous light-to-dark
background.
This printer ships with more res-
ident fonts than the others (48), as
well as 12 TrueType fonts for scal-
able output from Windows apps.
I found installing the Windows print-
er driver and fonts a snap. The
LED is clear and easy to see, and
the front panel is easy to figure out.
I made most selections without
even cracking the manual.
The HL-6T supports up to
4.5MB of RAM, but the 2.5MB con-
figuration I tested sailed through
the tests. Brother has made install-
ing the extra memory quite easy —
all you do is loosen one screw,
slide the lid back, and snap in a
couple of SIMMs.
When the printer is used with
the bundled Windows printer driv-
er, a data compression routine
makes for faster printing, and the
printer requires less memory. But
here's the real benefit of this tech-
nology: When you use the Win-
dows Print Manager {Windows'
built-in spooler), control of the
computer returns more quickly.
The driver also lets you switch the
high-speed parallel interface on
and off, download fonts (as either
permanent or temporary), and
adjust graphics print quality.
The HL-6T is also one of a few
printers to support a bidirection-
al parallel port. This option keeps
you apprised on your monitor of
the printer's status and progress
during a print job. It notifies you,
for example, when the printer runs
out of memory or needs paper.
Again, my only objections to
this printer are that its trays take
up a little too much space and the
printer itself could be just a little stur-
dier I also think that it should sup-
port PCL 5. Otherwise, the
DECEMBER 1993 COMPUTE 37
TEST LAB
HL-6T is a great value. (Editor's
note: Since the writing of ttiis re-
view. Brother has introduced the
HL-6V. a 6-ppm, 300-dpi printer
that does support PCL 5. Its sug-
gested retail price is $995.)
circle Reader Service Number 243
CANON L6P-430
Canon's LBP-430 is almost iden-
tical to Hewlett-Packard's Laser-
Jet 4L. The two printers look
almost exactly alike, have the
same Canon 4-ppm engine, and
support PCL 5. The LBP-430
comes out of the box ready to
print. All you do is pull the tab on
the toner cartridge, slide in some
paper, and let 'er rip. It's as sim-
ple as setting up the toaster for
breakfast.
Where this printer really excels
over the others in this month's
Test Lab is in its setup utility and
documentation. The setup utility,
a Windows-based application
that installs and configures the
printer driver automatically, asks
all the right questions and takes
all the guesswork out of the instal-
lation. During the installation proc-
ess, it displays graphics that
acquaint you with the printer
while you wait for files to copy
and decompress. What could be
easier? After installing the printer,
you can use the setup utility as
needed to control various op-
tions, such as printing a test
page, changing the default font,
and setting density.
The online documentation is
the best I've seen. It has eight
well-illustrated topics — Setup,
Paper Handling, Software Issues,
38 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
Canon LBP-43B— S799 SRP lor base
unit, $700-81,000 lor PoslScript
capability through Freedom ol the
Press software, pricing on 2IVIB anrl
5MB upgrade options available by
calling vendor
Warranty: two years, parts and
labor
CANON COMPUTER SYSTEMS
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Costa Mesa, CA 92628
(800) 848-4123
Adding Memory, and so on —
that not only explain all concepts
quite well but also demonstrate
procedures with drawings and
actual photographs of the printer.
Each topic receives quite thor-
ough coverage, and you can nav-
igate the online book by using the
table of contents menu or search
terms, as you would with the Win-
dows Help system. I tried and
tried to think of issues not cov-
ered in the online material — with-
out success.
If you're short on desk space,
you'll appreciate the compact-
ness and small footprint of this
printer. Need to move your print-
er around? This one is light and
easy to move. And it saves pow-
er, thanks to an automatic sleep
mode that, after 15 minutes of
inactivity, cuts power consump-
tion down to a bare minimum.
The printer has its own built-in
resolution enhancement technol-
ogy, which Canon calls Automat-
ic Image Refinement {AIF). AIF
helps prevent jaggies in large
text and the curved and diagonal
lines in graphics. The one-button
control panel is easy to figure out
and use — the list of convenienc-
es goes on and on. This is simply
a nice printer.
Though middle-of-the-road in
speed, the LBP-430 prints very
well. Text is clear at both large
and small sizes. Gray-scale half-
tones are as good as or better
than those from any of the other
printers reviewed here. I could
find nothing to complain about.
Where it falls short of the HP
LaserJet 4L, however, is in the
way that it handles memory. With
the HP model, I could complete
all my tests with 1MB RAM; the
LBP-430 required 2MB. Apparent-
ly, it doesn't compress data as
well as the LaserJet 4L. Luckily,
it holds up to 4MB, which is 2MB
more than the LaserJet 4L (al-
though that printer would proba-
bly never need more than 2MB to
print anything).
For a number of reasons, this
is a great printer, and you can
buy it at a reasonable price.
Circle Reader Service hJumber 244
BEFORE YOU BUY
Never before have printer vendors
offered so much for so little. Sorne
of the printers in this review are just
as good as or better than machines
that cost twice as much or more a
year or two ago. The device you
should buy depends primarily of
course, on what you intend to do
with it-
Most home office and small-busi-
ness applications need an all-
around, dependable machine that
prints good-looking text and an oc-
casional graphic at a reasonable
speed. Most of the printers reviewed
here fit that bill nicely Hov/ever. five
of them stand out: Hewlett-Packard's
LaserJet 4L, Canon's LBP-430. Ep-
son's ActionLaser 1500. Okidata's
OL400e. and Brother's HL-6T Ail are
gocd, durable printers; but since the
HP. Epson, and Canon models sup-
port PCL 5, they're more attractive if
you II be printing text special effects
(such as reverse type).
If you need a heavy-duty printer
with lots of upgrade options, you
should choose either the Lexmar-^
or Star Micronics offering. Again, the
Star Micronics LS-5EX's support for
PCL 5 makes it a little more attrac-
tive Finally if you plan to do desk-
top publishing and will be printing
EPS graphics or using your desktop
laser as a proof printer, the Texas
Instruments microWriter is a good
choice. Some of the other printers
offer PostScript, but none of them
can give you PostScript and Ap-
pleTalk support for less than S1 ,000.
—WILLIAM HARREL
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EPSON
ACTIONLASERISOO
Epson's ActionLaser 1500 is a
good printer with some limita-
tions. Thougli lacking in a few of
the frills found in the more recent-
ly released printers, such as Broth-
er's HL-6T and HP's LaserJet 4L,
it does support PCL 5. It doesn't
come witfi its own printer driver
with bidirectional port controls,
but it's a little faster than most of
the other printers reviewed here.
It's easy to set up and use, and
Epson has made it sturdy, light,
and compact enough that it won't
push you off your desk.
During setup, I encountered
only one problem, — installing the
RAM upgrade. The printer's
design forces you to remove too
many screv/s and parts. Further-
more, rather than installing con-
venient SlIVlMs, you must press in
memory chips, which, without prac-
tice, isn't foolproof. On the other
hand, I found loading the toner-
developer unit almost as easy as
switching on the conveniently front-
mounted power switch.
The real question is, of course,
how well does it print? And again
the ActionLaser has its pros and
Epson ActionLaser 1500— $600-
$699 estimated street price (ESP)
for base unit, S750-$850 ESP lor
review model v/lth 3MB RAM
Warranty: two years, parts and
labor
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cons. Similar to HP's Resolution
Enhancement technology (REt),
Epson's built-in Resolution
Improvement Technology (RIT)
sharpens your output, RIT fills in
the gaps around the edges of text
and graphics so that the resolution
seems higher than it really is.
The ActionLaser prints text as
well as or better than any of the oth-
er printers reviewed here. Look
closely and you'll find slender and
straight strokes on small type.
Curves are crisp. Even under a
magnifying glass, the type
doesn't exhibit any misplaced ton-
er — not always the case with oth-
er printers. Large text really does
look as though it's printed at a high-
er resolution than 300 dpi. Mono-
tone graphics look great.
However, the ActionLaser can-
not print gray-scale photographs
nearly as well as some of the oth-
er printers. True, 300-dpi printers
do not do photographs well, any-
way But when I tested the Action-
Laser, the results were less than
I'd expected. The photos looked
muddied and washed out, with
light spots too light and dark
spots too dark. The manual warns
that you should turn RIT off when
printing gray-scale images, but I
tried it both ways and saw little or
no difference. If you plan to print
many gray-scale screens or pho-
tographs, you shouldn't be using
a 300-dpi laser.
These shortcomings aside, I
liked this printer. It's sturdy and
fast, it prints text well, and it's
easy to use.
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Canon LBP-430
Epson AcfioitLaser 1500
HP LaserJet 4L
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Okidato OL400e
Panasonic KX-P4410
Star IVlicronics LS-5EX
Tandy LP 400
Tl microWriter
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HEWLETT-PACKARD
LASERJET 4L
Hewlett-Packard's economical
LaserJet 4L is almost everything
a personal desktop laser printer
should be: light, small, easy to set
up. and easy to use. The manu-
facturer provides great documen-
tation as well as an online refer-
ence that helps with everything
from setup to downloading fonts
and using the printer with various
software applications.
It's tough to find anything to crit-
icize about this printer. All the fea-
tures I like in the Brother HL-6T —
the bidirectional parallel port, the
easy font downloading, the graph-
ics quality, the resolution control,
and so on — are here, as are sev-
eral other interesting and helpful
options. About my only complaint
is that this pnnter turned in slight-
ly slower printing times than
some of the others.
Of all the printers in this round-
up, the LaserJet 4L is the only
printer that ships in a standard con-
figuration with enough memory to
perform our tests. It has 1MB of
RAfvl. which you can upgrade to
2MB. This doesn't sound like
much, but HP's Memory Enhance-
ment technology (MEt) compress-
es data, effectively doubling the
capacity of the Imstalled RAM.
Hence, 1MB is like 2MB, and so
on. Sound too good to be true? I
tried, but I could not overload the
memory in this printer.
HP's exclusive Resolution En-
hancement technology (REt)
works similarly to Epson's RIT.
However, I found the LaserJet
42 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4L— $849
SRP lor base unit. S99SRP lor 1MB
RAM
Warranty: one year, parts and labor
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4L's technology more satisfacto-
ry, whether printing text or graph-
ics. Frankly, the LaserJet 4L
prints as well as or better than
any of the other printers reviewed
here. In fact, it prints text as well
as the 600-dpi Lexmark I use reg-
ularly and its halftones (though
obviously 300-dpi) are great.
Some other HP options also
help to make this a standout print-
er. Intelligent On/Off turns the print-
er off after extended periods of
idleness, EconoMode allows the
printer to use 50 percent of the
usual amount of toner when print-
ing drafts, proofs, internal mem-
os, or any other documents that
don't require top quality. HP's ton-
er cartridge comes with superfine
toner, which also enhances print
quality And with HP's Reduce/
Reuse/Recycle design, the man-
uals come on recycied paper, and
you're encouraged to recycle the
toner cartridges, on which HP
pays the return postage.
Finally, unlike any of the other
printers reviewed here, the
LaserJet 4L contains the
Enhanced PCL 5 found in the
LaserJet 4, which provides a fast-
er pnnting speed than that of the
NIP (which the LaserJet 4L replac-
es), and Inteliifont scaling. Scal-
ing allows you to use HP's Intelii-
font format to print at any point
size (similar to PostScript Type 1
fonts). The LaserJet 4L has 26 res-
ident Inteliifont typefaces.
Again, this is a great printer at
a great price. If you're looking to
break into the laser pnnter vrorld,
this one opens the door painiess-
ly and with style.
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IBM 4037 5E
Like the Epson laser printer, the
4037 5E is a mixture of good
news and bad news. Immensely
simple to set up, it comes with a
DOS-based utility that checks to
make sure you've set up the print-
er correctly and then installs print-
er drivers for most popular appli-
cations, including WordPerfect,
Windows, and Word. This printer
is fast, but in its native emulation —
IBM's PPDS — pnnt quality isn't up
to par, and its HP LaserJet emu-
lation isn't always adequate, either,
Lexmark makes installing a
memory upgrade in this printer
quite simple. Just open a door
and slip in a SIMM, You'll find
installing the font card and the
flash memory option (which al-
lows you to download permanent
soft fonts) just as easy Flash mem-
ory comes in both 0,25MB and
1MB modules. You can use it to
A NOTE ON PRICES
Witti hardware products changing
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tions more plentiful than ever, pric-
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it pays to keep the following
poinis in mind:
Street prices can be considerably
lower than suggested retail prices.
Although most manufacturers sup-
ply us with the suggested retail
price, a few supply only the street
price, and it's important that you pay
attention to which pricing appears
in the product information. Then you
should shop around to find the best
price.
Although we try hard to provide
timely information, a product may
have changed by the time our re-
view sees print.
At COMPUTE, we make every ef-
fort to verify prices and differentiate
between the price tor a review con-
figuration and the price for a base con-
figuration. The first price you'll see in
the product information is for a base
configuration. It's a good idea to call
the manufacturer or vendor to make
sure that the configuration you want
matches the price you have in mind.
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send fonts to the printer in ad-
vance of print jobs, wtiich can
save time v/hen printing. Howev-
er, the flash memory works only
in PPDS mode, which means you
don't benefit from it when using
the printer in HP LaserJet emula-
tion. The font card, which pro-
vides 23 scalable resident fonts,
is a great option also, but it, too,
works only in PPDS mode.
These PPDS options are great
for printing text; however, this print-
er does not print halftone screens
very well at all. In the CorelDRAW!
test, the printer produced entirely
too much banding (obvious abrupt
transitions from one shade to
another) no matter how I adjusted
the print pattern and contrast. The
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CorelDRAW! drawing printed
much better in PCL mode, but
POL 4 leaves something to be
desired. The 4037 5E was not able
to prjnt some newsletter pages in
PCL mode with 2-5fv1B RAfvl. It ran
out of memory.
This printer does, however,
have some attractive features.
The LED is large, and the logical-
ly arranged buttons make chang-
ing emulation and other choices
easy. The large paper tray has an
indicator on the front that lets you
know when you're getting short
on paper. It does not, hov^ever,
support legal-size pages. You'll
have to buy an optional tray for
that. I found text quality great at
large and small sizes, in both
PPDS and PCL modes.
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This is a big, sturdy printer
capable of handling heavy-duty
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always have great documenta-
tion. The 4037 5E is no exception.
I found the documentation thor-
ough and the illustrations excep-
tional and helpful. And the online
utility makes setting up, program-
ming, and font downloading a
snap. This printer is not as so-
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and it has a few frustrating
quirks; otherwise, it's a depend-
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OKIDATA OL400E
If you need a fast printer that
prints well and takes up an incred-
ibly small portion of your desktop,
you should take a good long look
at this one. In fact, if your comput-
er workspace is limited, this
could be the printer for you. It has
a lot of options squeezed into a
small package, and I like it.
Like HP's LaserJet 4L, the
OL400e compresses data, thus
requiring less memory. It comes
standard with 51 2K, and surpris-
ingly, this is enough for most
print jobs. Only while printing the
most stringent of the newsletter
pages did it peter out. Even then,
it finished most of the pages,
defaulting to Courier only at the
bottom of the most complicated
page. After I installed another
megabyte (which was simply a
matter of sliding a card into the
back of the printer), I could not
overload the OL400e. This print-
er holds up to 4MB of RAM.
which most desktop applications
would never use.
The OL400e placed in the top
three on all four of the speed
tests, and I found the print quali-
ty excellent The only drawback
was this printer's use of PCL 4,
which meant that it could not
print the reverse type in the news-
letter. Other than that, text and
graphics printed crisp and
clean, with clear, definitive
strokes and minimal stairstep-
ping. The gray-scale photograph
printed as v/ell on this printer as
on anybody else's, and the
48 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
Okldata 014006—8699 SRP tor
biise unit
Warranty: one year, parts and labor:
tive years on LED printliead
OKIDATA
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Ml. Laurel, NJ 08054
(609) 235-2600
CorelDRAW! drawing had mini-
mal banding.
Like the HP and Brother print-
ers, the OL400e talks back to
your computer. For example, if
the printer runs out of memory or
paper or encounters another prob-
lem, it displays a message in Win-
dows. Although this really is not
a network printer, these messag-
es are particularly helpful when
the printer is in another room or
not in plain sight, such as on a mul-
tiple-tiered computer stand
where the printer is hidden by the
shelf that holds the keyboard.
You won't believe how light and
small this printer is. It's almost
snnall enough to pack up and take
with you. Lifting it out of the box,
I wondered about its sturdlness.
But paper runs through it smooth-
ly, and all the parts and doors fit
precisely. There's no reason to
believe it won't last. Okidata's engi-
neers deserve a lot of credit.
The OL400e's use of PCL 4
places it a little behind HP's Las-
erJet 4L in options and quality.
Another drawback is that at
press time there was no way to
get PostScript output from it. How-
ever, Okidata says a PostScript
option is in the works. Aside from
these grievances, there's no rea-
iiasonlc KX-P4410— S769 SRP for
::e unit, $150 SRP lor IMB RAFil
arranty: one year, parts and labCi
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Secaucus, Nj 07094
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son not to consider this printer. If
it supported PCL 5, I would con-
sider it the best printer in this
bunch, hands down.
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PANASONIC
KX-P4410
Ivly first impression of this printer
was that it was big and sturdy —
and that it is. The Panasonic KX-
P4410 is, however, a little long in
the tooth and in need of upgrad-
ing. For example, its separate ton-
er and developer cartridges
make it somewhat more difficult
to set up than the others. And add-
ing memory requires too much dis-
assembly The KX-P4410 supports
POL 4, which means print quality
and options are lacking, and it has
only five resident fonts. But then,
if you use Windows, resident fonts
aren't a big issue. What you get
with the KX-P4410 is a well-built
workhorse that's liable to last just
about forever.
The more I played with this print-
er, the more it reminded me of the
HP LaserJet Series II, which was
a fine printer in its day. In fact,
most of those built and sold sev-
eral years ago are still around, and
several HP dealers have backlogs
of companies that want to lease
used ones. However, the Series II
does not support scalable fonts,
and halftone screen patterns are
blotchy, as is the case with this
printer. It's not the ideal device for
printing camera-ready art.
The KX-P4410 scored near or at
the bottom of my speed tests, and
type and graphics are a little
stairstepped and fuzzy. This is not
to say that the quality is not accept-
able: it's just not as good as witti
the others. The documentation is
very thorough, though a bit too tech-
nical for an entry-level printer. It's
obvious that at one time this was
not an entry-level model.
This printer is not really suitable
for desktop publishing and other
graphics-intensive work. However,
if you need a workhorse capable
of turning out page after page of
text day after day, this one will
serve you well. It would hold up
very nicely in an operation printing
lots of in-house word processor,
spreadsheet, and database doc-
uments. It would also be a good
printer for generating a lot of cop-
ies of the same document.
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STAR MICRONICS
LS-5EX
If you need a sturdy printer offer-
ing easy setup, PCL 5, good
print quality, and speed, take a
Star Micranics LS-SEX— $989 SRP
for base unit, SI, 144 SRP lor review
unit wilti 2MB RAM. S225 tor
Truetmage upgrade (requires 1MB
RAIVII
Warraitly: two years, oarts aniJ
iabor
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New York, NYI 01 70
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look at the LS-5EX.
The LS-5EX rated in the top
three on all four tests, and its print
quality is as good as that of any of
the other printers. But the real sto-
ry behind this printer is upgrade
options. For a few extra dollars you
can transform this machine from a
modest personal laser into a pow-
erful workhorse. It has the highest
maximum memory configuration of
all these printers — 7fv1B. You can
get a 500-page input tray; the ton-
er cartridge has a 4500-page
print duty cycle; and, with the Post-
Script upgrade, the printer sup-
ports AppleTalk, which makes it a
great network printer,
There's also a Truelmage
upgrade available. Truelmage is Mi-
crosoft's PostScript clone, which
may or may not eventually catch
on and become popular. The print-
er comes with 15 TrueType fonts,
which you can use with Windows.
All this power comes at a
price. This is a big, bulky printer,
not nearly as compact as the
Okidata or HP offering. The thor-
ough manual becomes a bit tech-
nical in places, with much informa-
tion on programming the printer.
I like the convenience of the
LED and button panel. The LED
is easy to read, and the buttons
are easy to figure out. Also, when
you press a button, the printer
gives you instructions on what to
do next. For example, when you
press the test button, a message
CORELDRAW! DRAWING
Brother HL-6T
Canon LBP-430
Epson AttionLaser 1 500
HP LaserJet 4L
IBM 4037 5E
Okidata OL400e
PanosonitKX-P4410
Star Mkronits LS-5 EX
Tandy LP-400
Ti microWriler
12.23
10.59
3.38
10.4
In Minutes
PCL
PostScript
DECEMBER 1993 COMPUTE 49
TEST LAB
flashes on the LED. telling you to
hold the button for two seconds
to print a test page. This printer
is full of neat little features.
Also worth discussing are the
speed and print quality of the LS-
5EX. While the Epson printer
turned out slightly faster times on
most of the tests, the LS-5EX out-
put looks a little better. In addition
to sharp, crisp type, the graphics
are quite good for a 300-dpi print-
er. This is attributable to the Star
Micronics Resolution Enhance-
ment Procedure (REP). REP
increases horizontal resolution to
600 dpi. which helps fill in
curved and diagonal edges.
The only way to test how well
these resolution enhancement rou-
tines work is to analyze the output.
Using a magnifying glass, I exam-
ined text and graphics from the
printers using these routines. The
Star Micronics model had slightly
more stairstepping in diagonal
strokes than the other printers; I
noticed this stairstepping m A's,
W's. and so on. But the differences
in resolution are not noticeable with-
out magnification.
About the only problem I
encountered was upgrading the
memory. And it was really more of
a hassle than a problem — too
many parts to take off. Other than
that, it's a great printer.
None of the other printers in
this Test Lab are as sturdy as the
LS-5EX or offer as many upgrade
options. If your printing needs go
beyond the modest abilities of a
personal desl<;top laser, you
should consider the LS-5EX,
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50 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
Tandy LP 40Q-S799.00 SRP tor
base unil, $199.99 SRP lor 1MB RAIVI
Warranty: one year, narts and labor
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TANDY LP 400
This printer is easy to set up and
has great documentation. I had
it up and printing in a very short
time. Like the Panasonic printer,
though, this machine has a few lim-
itations that make it less than ideal
for all applications.
The LP 400 requires a lot of
memory to print a page of text
and graphics, and it emulates the
HP lip which limits output
options and quality. Like the oth-
er devices in this review that do
not support PCL 5, it cannot print
reverse type and does not sup-
port scalable fonts — unless, of
course, you're printing from Win-
dows, which has its own font-scal-
ing technology Also, this printer's
halftone screens aren't as clear
as those from some of the other
printers reviewed in this roundup.
And it's a little slower than most
of the other printers, but not
excruciatingly so.
The LP 400 prints too dark
and character spacing is not very
good. Often, characters print too
close together or overlap each oth-
er. You donT get the fine charac-
ter strokes produced by some of
the other printers, such as the
Epson, HP and Okidata models.
But the thick strokes do eliminate
stairstepping in large text. This is
also helpful when you print graph-
ics with lots of arcs or diagonal
lines, The LP 400 did print the
gray-scale photograph and graph-
'ics well, especially for a PCL 4
machine.
To its credit, this printer
doesn't take much space on
your desktop. The LED is easy to
read, and the buttons are easy to
figure out and use. Printing font
and test pages is easy, as is sim-
ple programming, such as chang-
ing interfaces and emulation
modes. The memory upgrade is
literally a snap; all you do is slip
in a couple of SIMMs. In addition,
Tandy has a great support team.
The LP 400, like the Panasonic
model, is built very well, and it
should last a long time under a
heavy workload, where some of
the other light, compact models
may not prove as durable. I think
it would be best suited for an
office that generates lots of docu-
ments for its own consumption,
such as interdepartmental re-
ports or memos.
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dard with PostScript, making it
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required for p,rinting PostScript
graphics and for proofing output
intended for imagesetters, color-
proof printers, and slide recorders.
The microWriter also emulates the
HP IIP, making it an all-around,
good printer for home and small
business. And with its support for
AppleTalk, you can use it with a
Macintosh or on a network.
The advantages of PostScript
are many. For example, the news-
letter used to test these printers
had two EPS images on the front
page, None of the other printers
could print them properly — all
that printed were low-resolution
screen representations of the
images. Also, draw programs
such as CorelDRAW! create cer-
tain effects that non-PostScript
printers cannot print.
The microWriter is a huge, stur-
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up. The one that I tested came
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TEST LAB
sequentiy. I didn't have an oppor-
tunity to evaluate the memory-
upgrading process. However,
2MB Is seldom enough memory
for a PostScript printer, and the
mIcroWrlter Is no exception. In
PostScript mode, It was not able
to complete the full-page
CorelDRAW! drawing and a
couple of the newsletter pages.
Also, the shortage of memory
caused numerous timeout errors
from Windows. I finally had to set
the Retry option in the Windows
PostScript driver to over 300 to
get the newsletter to print.
PostScript printers print faster
with more memory. The graphs in
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this Test Lab show how slow the
microWriter Is with only 2fvlB. f
didn't test It with more than 2MB,
but the printer would undoubted-
ly print faster with twice as much
memory. A drawback of the
microWriter is that it can hold
only 4MB of RAM. While this is
enough for most applications,
graphics applications could
require more.
Note, however, that the printer
had plenty of RAM for the HP
emulation tests. It turned in
respectable times in HP mode,
except on the CorelDRAW! draw-
ing. For some reason it was too
slow on that one. But then, I had
a similar anomaly with the HP Las-
erJet 4L, which fell way behind on
the gray-scale test but performed
respectably on the others.
The microWriter documentation,
though sparse, is clear. It covers
the basics, and these days few
users need more. There is, howev-
er, an optional reference manual
that contains HP programming
and PostScript interpreter informa-
tion. The standard PostScript con-
figuration is 17 Type 1 fonts, which
you can upgrade to 65. There is
also a 2MB font upgrade that
adds several PCL fonts to the
base IIP configuration.
Although some of the printers in
this review are sleeker and have a
few more sophisticated features
than this one, PostScript makes
the microWriter an excellent val-
ue — even if you do have to spend
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offer PostScript upgrades, but in
most cases you'll have to upgrade
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PAGEMAKER NEWSLETTER
Brother HL-6T
Canon lBP-430
Epson ActionLaser ISOO
HP LaserJet 4L
IBM 4037 5E
Okidata OL400e
Panasonic KX-P4410
Star Micronics LS-5EX
Tandy IP 400
Tl microWriter
Not enough RAM to
print entirely
38.5
In Nimtes
PCL
PostScript
52 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
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TEST LAB
1
K Printer Features j^^^^^^^^^H
Brother
HL-6T
Canon
LBP-430
Epson
Action Laser
1500
HP LaserJet
4L
IBM
4037 5E
Memory options
up to 4MB
up to 4MB
up to 5MB
up to 2MB
up to 4.5MB
HP LaserJet emulation
PCL4
PCL5
PCL5
Entianced
PCL5
POL 4
PostScript
Optional
no
optional
no
no
Epson FX80 emulation
yes
no
yes
no
no
Input tray capacity
150
100
150
100
150
Output tray capacity
100
50
100
50
100
Envelope feeder
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Optional paper tray sizes
250
no
250
no
400
Resident fonts
48
15
27
26
16
Recyclable toner cartridge
no
yes
no
yes
yes
Toner cartridge life (in pages)
3500
3000
6000
3000
3500
Cost per page (in cents)
2.7
0.28
2.7
0.3
3.2
Pages per minute
6
4
6
4
5
Windows printer driver
yes
yes
yes-
yes
yes
Interfaces supported
serial & parallel
parallel
serial & parallel
parallel
parallel
Microprocessor
MC68000
National
Semiconductor
MC68000
MC68000
MC68000
Microprocessor speed
16 MHz
14.6 MHz
16.67 MHz
16 MHz
10 MHz
Engine life (in pages)
300,000
100,000
180,000
indefinite
3500
Engine manufacturer
Canon
Canon
Minolta
Canon
Lexmark
Weight (in pounds)
21.5
15.4
15.5
29
24
Dimensions (in inclies)
13.8x16.5x9.1
14.5x14.8x6.2
8.9x14.5x18
14.5x14x6.5
9.7x15x17,6
•Must use tlie HP HP Windows driver.
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TEST LAB
1
.^ Printer Features
Okidata
OL400e
Panasonic
KX-P4410
Star
Micronics
LS-5EX
Tandy LP
400
Texas
Instruments
microWriter
Memory options
up to 4MB
up to 4.5MB
up JO 7MB
up to 2.5MB
up to 4MB
HP LaserJet emulation
PCL4
PCL4
PCL5
PCL4
POL 4
PostScript
no
no
optional
no
yes
Epson FX80 emulation
no
no
no
no
no
Input tray capacity
100
200
200
100
200
Output tray capacity
100
100
100
100
100
Envelope feeder
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Optional paper tray sizes
legal
200
250 & 500
300
250
Resident fonts
57
5
22
14
17
Recyclable toner cartridge
no
no
no
no
yes
Toner cartridge life (in pages)
2000
3000
4500
1500
2500
Cost per page (in cents)
1.4
3.3
2.4
3.8
4.8
Pages per minute
4
5
5
4
6
Windows printer driver
yes
yes"
yes
yes*
yes*
Interfaces supported
serial & parallel
parallel
serial, parallel,
& AppleTalk
parallel
serial, parallel,
& AppleTalk
Microprocessor
LSi
National
Semiconductor
i809600SA
MC68000
MC68000
Microprocessor speed
32 MHz
ISiVlHz
16 MHz
20 MHz
16 MHz
1
Engine life (in pages)
150,000
180,000
150,000
150,000
indefinite
Engine manufacturer
Okidata
Matsushita
Fuji/Xerox
TEC
Samsung
Weight (in pounds)
13.5
29.8
29.7
28.7
33
Dimensions (In inches)
12.6x14.2x6.3
14.6x15,5x9.3
10x13.9x15.5
7.75x14,25x16
10.4x13.8x14,8
■•Must use the HP IIP Windows driver.
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Encourage Green Computing
Help your friends save money
while turning their PCs into
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G Saver, a hardware/software
combination that helps make
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They consume less power,
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sists of a unique power strip
and TSR software, and it con-
nects to any IBM-compatible
computer monitor, keyboard,
and printer running under
DOS or Windows. The prod-
uct senses when the system
is no longer In use and auto-
matlcaily switches it into a pow-
er-saving standby or "sleep"
mode: however, it's ready for
use the moment the user
presses a key or moves the
mouse. The system complies
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For the Absent Baseball Fan
You know how some people in-
sist on leaving the computer
turned on, even when they're
outside mowing the lawn?
Well, this IS the perfect gift for
them — especially If they're
baseball fans. Lights Out
Sports Fans is a major-
league baseball screen saver
that gives you year-round, 24-
hour action on the computer
screen — while you're busy do-
ing other things! First, you
choose your default home
and visiting teams from
among the 28 major-league lo-
gos; then, you select your
screen-saver action from any
of ten different game plans.
For example, you can pit any
team against another, mix Na-
tional and American League
players on the same team,
play games using actual
stats, give your home team
the advantage, or let the com-
puter slug it out by itself. And
if you choose, the program
produces all sorts of authen-
tic ballpark sounds — even If
there's no one there to hear
them! Suggested retail price
Is $55. For more Information,
contact Quadrangle Software,
305 East Elsenhower Park-
way, Suite 208, Ann Arbor,
Michigan 48108; (800) 253-
8397, (313) 769-1695 (fax).
Virtual College
There's no campus, student
body, or classroom per se.
but the four credit hours and
six-week educational experi-
ence are quite real. It's New
York University's Virtual Col-
lege, part of the school's con-
tinuing education program.
For a fee of $1,933, anyone In
the world with access to a PC
and modem can sign up. Ac-
cording to NYU, the Virtual Col-
lege Is merely another sign of
the times — "a virtual college
preparing employees for to-
morrow's virtual organiza-
tions." Telecommuting and
teleconferencing are becom-
ing the norm for many employ-
ees, replacing the traditional
work environments, and the Vir-
tual College is merely an exten-
sion of this trend, teaching
skills necessary for jobs of the
future. Using Lotus Notes, a
group-communications pro-
gram provided free to each
person who enrolls, students
collaborate online during the
six-week period — at any time
of day or night — and partici-
pate in the development of a
major systems project. All
work is conducted from the in-
dividual's own home or office
PC. For more Information, con-
tact the NYU Information Tech-
nology Institute, 48 Cooper
Square, Room 104, New
York, New York 10003; (212)
998-7190.
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If you'd like to produce your
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fering a holiday collection of
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Stop settling for someone else's holiday greeting: PaperDirect sells
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of more than 60 templates
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07071; (800) 272-7377,
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One Man's LAN
For the person who works
with more than one PC and
wants LAN capabilities with-
out the usual complexities
and cost, One-Man-LAN is
the answer.
Mimicking a LAN file serv-
er, this neat new product
from PC Interconnect lets
you access programs in-
stalled on secondary PCs
as though they were in-
stalled on your primary PC,
and It allows you to print
from secondary machines.
There's no need to throw
away your old computer —
your spare PC's hard drive
can be used to augment
your system as an addition-
al drive for your primary PC,
as well as for disk caching.
One-Man-LAN is easy to
mi
OFF
con
lea.
install, runs quickly, and is
completely DOS compatible
(and it isn't limited to intercon-
necting just two PCs), The
suggested retail price is
$199 for a two-PC configura-
tion, including hardware, soft-
ware, documentation, toll-
free customer support. Stack-
er, and ttie latest version of
PC-Kwik disk-cacfiing soft-
ware. Contact PC intercon-
nect, 106 Library Plaza, 15
Nortti 100 East, Prove, Utafi
84606; (801) 374-8880;
(801)374-2306 (fax).
A Whiteboard for the PC
Slightly more expensive
than your basic whiteboard
but with many more applica-
tions, SoftBoard is a nifty
new peripheral device that
lets you combine using a
whiteboard with your desk-
top computer. Whatever you
whte on the SoftBoard sur-
face with the special Soft-
Board colored markers,
which are included with the
package, is simultaneously
displayed on your PC or
N/lac. The data can then be
saved, printed, used in anoth-
er application, or shared
with other users in realtime —
even those in multiple loca-
tions. Suggested retail price
is $2,995, Contact Ivlicro-
field Graphics, 9825 South-
west Sunshine Court, Suite
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You say you've run out of
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Known collectively on DIA-
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If it were any more real, your
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has four planes, each with its own
instrument panel created digitally
from actual photographs. There are
storm clouds and sunsets to fl\-
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you can fly to airports anywhere
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FEEDBACK
Adding a Toaster
to your PC, translating
teciinobabble,
scanning tieer bottles,
putting a hard
drive where your
printer sliould
be, and changing
cats into docs
62 COMPUTE
Toost
Is NewTek making a version
of the Video Toaster for PCs?
Whien will it be shipping?
BRETT REAGAN
SULLIVAN. MO
It's been out for a while. New-
Tek makes a version for the
PC and for the Mac. But in
these versions the Video Toast-
er just uses the PC or /viae as
an input device. All the real
work is done by an Amiga
computer built Into the Video
Toaster
Foreign Language
I'm planning to purchase a
new computer, but when I
check the advertisements, I
find many things that confuse
me. Would you mind explain-
ing the following for me''
1 . Windows accelerator
2. SIMM
3. Cirrus Logic 1-meg VESA
card
4. VESA Lb IDE controller
5. Local-bus technology
6. 486 DX/33 VESA
7. 386 DX/40 AMD
Can a modem receive and
send faxes? Can a scanner
create text tiles'? What should
I know and notice when I pur-
chase a new computer? And
do you have a fax number?
UWRENCE Ul
ETOBICOKE, ON
That's quite a list. We'll do our
best
1. Windows takes a lot of
processor time away from
your CPU. resulting in re-
duced performance for most
computers. A Windows accel-
erator takes over the process-
ing needed to refresh the
screen, leaving more time for
the CPU to do its job.
2. SIMM chips are a special
kind of RAM designed to be
easy to replace and upgrade.
3. VESA is a standards or-
ganization whose purpose is
DECEMBER 1993
to make sure Super VGA stan-
dards are maintained. Al-
though we can 't be sure, we
suspect that the VGA card
you're asking about is
equipped with 1MB of RAM
(far lots of colors at high res-
olution) and follows the VESA
standard. However, its descrip-
tion might mean that the vid-
eo card is on the local bus.
You should clarify this point
with the sales department.
4. Lb is an abbreviation for
local bus. Instead of having its
IDE controller on the expan-
sion bus, the computer has its
IDE controller on the local bus.
5. Local-bus technology is
technology that places periph-
erals that might otherwise be
on the 8-MHz expansion bus
on the local bus, which usual-
ly operates at the same
speed as the processor This
gives peripherals such as vid-
eo cards and hard disk con-
trollers a little extra scoot.
6. Listing VESA alongside
the processor is probably an
indication that the machine
has a local-bus connector in
this case a VESA local bus
(as opposed to the Intel local
bus, an alternative standard).
7. AMD is a maker of 386
chips. The manufacturer lists
AMD so you'll know that the
computer isn't an Intel-based
machine.
A data/fax modem can re-
ceive and send faxes (some da-
ta/fax modems are send-only,
so you should check before
buying). Unless they're desig-
nated as data/fax or fax mo-
dems, modems can only send
and receive computer files.
Scanners can only import
images. Many manufacturers
make computer software that
can turn imiages into text — //
they're images of text, that is.
We can't tell you in this
brief space wliat to look for in
a computer, though we fre-
quently run articles on that sub-
ject The two most important
things in considering a pur-
chase are to buy from some-
one who will honor a guaran-
tee and to buy enough com-
puter to do your work.
Our fax number is (919)
275-9837.
On the Bios
I need to hand-scan beer bot-
tles (1 collect them). But none
of the scanners I've seen can
scan a curved surface.
STEVE MILLER
ARNPRIOR, ON
We're running your letter in
the hope that someone will
have a solution to your prob-
lem. If you have phenomenal
control over your hands, you
could scan the bottle with a
flatbed scanner being careful
to roll the bottle in such a way
that it's always directly above
the light bar This would be
one case where a slow scan-
ner would be preferable. If
you have any suggestions for
Mr Miller, please write to
"Feedback." and we'll for-
ward your ideas to him.
Tlie Big Squeeze
Should I buy a SyDOS remov-
able-cartridge hard drive? My
hard disk keeps filling up. Al-
so, one of the things that con-
fuses me is that the external
disk drive hooks to the paral-
lel port. Does that mean I just
unplug my printer?
PAT SIMMONS
GULFPORT MS
Ah, the ever-cramped hard
disk. If only someone would
come up with an acceptable so-
lution. An accordion drive, per-
haps, or a balloon drive that ex-
pands when the pressure in-
side becomes too great. The
SyDOS will probably solve
your problem, but rather expen-
sively. The cartridges aren't
cheap. Generally, appliances
other than printers that use
your parallel port have a pass-
through connector that allows
you to use your printer at the
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FEEDBACK
coniinued from page 62
same time. Check with SyDOS to be sure, but we expect that
you would at least have the option of installing a pass-
through plug.
It would seem that using Stacker or DoubleSpace would
solve your problem, but these programs are only temporary
solutions. Recently, we became aware of a product called In-
finite Disk (Chili Pepper Software, 1630 Pleasant Hill Road.
Suites 180-200. Atlanta, Georgia 30136-7411; 404-339-1812:
$189). It tracks disk use and compresses infrequently used
files. Rarely used files are offloaded to floppies. The operat-
ing system thinks the offloaded files are still on the disk,
though. When you access a file that's been offloaded. Infinite
Disk prompts you to insert the floppy that contains the file, and
the file is accessed as if it were on the hard disk.
Undoc DOS
I've discovered an undocumented DOS 5 command: Tru-
ename. It returns the current drive and directory.
JAMES HEMPHILL
CHARLOTTE NC
Conversion
I upgraded from a Canon Cat word processor to a PC. All
my valuable word-processing files are on Canon-format
disks whicti the PC can't read. How can I transfer the fUes?
GUNTHER DOERFERT
KINGSPORT, TN
We receive many letters tike yours from people who pur-
chased various kinds of dedicated word processors. The
disks these word processors use are frequently the same
disks used by PCs, so it would seem logical that the PC
should be able to read them. Generally, this isn't the case,
however. Word processors use their own formats, which are
completely alien to the PC. Canon said that the Cat was fit-
ted with a telephone plug for telephone communications, but
It was very sketchy on how the hookup could be effected.
According to Canon, you could convert your word proces-
sor files to ASCII and then modem them to a PC, but that's
not recommended because "You would lose a lot of data. "
Clarifying this point. Canon said that you'd lose both format-
ting and text.
If you know someone who has a scanner and OCR soft-
ware, you might print out your text files and then have your
friend scan the printouts. That would also result in some
loss (no OCR is 100-percent accurate).
There are companies that convert information from one
disk format to another for a fee. If any readers know of a com-
pany that transfers Information from Canon, Brother. Panason-
ic, or Smith-Corona word processors to PC disks, please
send us that information, and we'll forward it to f\Ar. Doerfert
and other readers who have similar file conversion problems.
Do you have a question about hardware or software? Have
you discovered something that could help other PC users? If
so, we want to hear from you. Call our special "Feedback"
line: (900) 884-8681, extension 7010201 (sponsored by Pure
Entertainment, PO, Box 186, Hollywood. California 90078).
The call will cost 95 cents per minute, you must be 18 or old-
er, and you must use a touch-tone phone. Or you can write
to "Feedback" in care of this magazine. Readers whose calls
or letters appear in "Feedback" will receive a free COMPUTE
baseball cap while supplies last. We regret that we cannot pro-
vide personal replies to technical questions. □
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Tony Roberts
Control your
PATH, and your
compiiter will
be faster and more
efficient
66 COMPUTE DECEMBER
CHOOSING THE
RIGHT PATH
The PATH statement is an in-
tegral part of your computer's
operating system. Know its se-
crets, and it can make your sys-
tem work mucii faster and
more efficiently.
If you hiave trouble under-
standing the PATH statement
and why it's there, consider
this real-world example.
I have the habit of setting
my car keys tn only three plac-
es: on my desk, on my dress-
ing table, or on a certain kitch-
en shelf. When I'm ready to go
motoring and my keys aren't in
my pocket, I check my desk,
my bedroom, and the kitchen;
99 percent of the time, the
keys turn up. By following my
path, I can quickly achieve the
required result.
DOS's PATH statement is
similar: It describes places on
your system that are most like-
ly to hold executable flies.
Type a command at the DOS
prompt, and the system
checks the current subdirecto-
ry and then each of the subdi-
rectories listed in the PATH to
try to find the program you
want to execute. By limiting
the search path, you prevent
the system from churning
through the whole disk.
One of the problems with
PATH statements, however, is
that they tend to outgrow them-
selves, Prior to DOS 6, the
PATH statement was limited to
127 characters. When you in-
stall software, the program of-
ten suggests that you add its
subdirectory to the PATH state-
ment. Eventually, the PATH
line becomes too long and is
truncated.
The major benefit of having
a subdirectory In the PATH is
that any program in that sub-
directory can be executed
from anywhere iri your system
without your having to enter
the full path name. But the prob-
1993
lem with a long PATH state-
ment is that every time you ex-
ecute a command, the system
looks through all the subdirec-
tories listed in the PATH; a
long list can slow things
down.
The best solution is to be
stingy about what you put in
the PATH. In most cases, in-
clude only subdirectories that
must be available on a system-
wide basis— DOS and Win-
dows subdirectories for exam-
ple. Also, create a BATCH
subdirectory and put it on the
PATH.
For all of your software, cre-
ate a startup batch file in the
batch directory. Have the
batch file CD (Change Direc-
tory) to the appropriate subdi-
rectory and then start the ap-
plication. Finally, upon termina-
tion of the application, have
the batch file CD back to the
root directory
This system allows you to
start any program with a sim-
ple command, and it allows
the system to find and exe-
cute commands more quickly.
You've probably noticed
the double dot {..) entry that ap-
pears when you ask for a di-
rectory listing of a subdirecto-
ry. This entry represents the
parent of the current subdirec-
tory. If you place the double
dot entry in your path, you can
start programs from the parent
of whatever subdirectory hap-
pens to be current.
This can be a useful strate-
gy if your hard disk data is
structured properly Some peo-
ple install programs in one sub-
directory and then store data
in a subdirectory one level be-
low the program. For example,
if your word processor is in
C:\WORDP you might keep
your document files in
C:\WORDP\DOCS. With the
double dot entry in the PATH,
you could always start the
word processor while the
WORDPVDATA subdirectory
was current. The same holds
true for spreadsheet, data-
base, and other data.
The PATH entry might look
like this: PATH C:\;C;\DOS;
C:\WINDOWS;.,; C:\BATCH
If you use Windows, you've
surely discovered that a lot of
Windows software wants to be
on the path. If you take it off,
it just doesn't work right. But
why have all those huge sub-
directories on the path when
you're working from DOS?
The solution is to use two
paths, one for DOS and one
for Windows. Start Windows
from a batch file that toggles
between the two path state-
ments for you. Here's how it
works.
If you type path at the DOS
prompt, DOS will show you the
current path statement. The
sample batch file fragment be-
low uses the DOS redirecton
technique to copy the current
PATH statement to a batch
file. Then a new path, which
points to Windows software, is
established, and Windows is
run. When you leave Win-
dows, the system returns to
the root directory and calls the
batch fiie that was created by
the first line of the program. Be-
cause that file contains an im-
age of the previous PATH state-
ment, the original PATH para-
meters are restored.
PATH > C:\BATCH\OLDPATH.BAT
PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\ALDUS;
C:\PM4;C:\EXCEL;C:\DESKSCAN
C:\WINDOWS\WIN %1 %2 %3 %4
C:
CD\
CALL C:\BATCH\OLDPATH
If none of this suits you and
you own DOS 6, you can cre-
ate PATH statements longer
than 127 characters by includ-
ing a PATH line in your CON-
FIG.SYS file. But once your
long path is established by the
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WINDOWS WORKSHOP
Clifton Karnes
WINSCOPE
If you spend your spare time
peeping through other peo-
ple's windows, you're liable to
wind up in jail, But if you con-
fine your voyeurism to other
people's Windows programs.
you're liable to become a Win-
dows guru.
But what kind of binoculars
do you use to see through the
curtains, shades, and
screens that hide what's going
on behind the scenes in Win-
dows? The answer to this ques-
tion came recently from Peri-
scope, a company famous for
WInScope lurks
on your
deshtop and spies
on messages,
API calls, hooks,
and more.
making hardware and soft-
ware debugging equipment.
Last June, it introduced Win-
Scope, a Windows debugging
and diagnostic tool that can lit-
erally show you how Windows
works.
WinScope is a Windows
app that lurks in the back-
ground on your desktop and
traces a program's messages,
API calls, and hooks, as well
as ToolHelp notifications and
Debug kernel messages. It's
akin to Microsoft's Spy and
Borland's InSight, but it goes
way beyond both in power
and features.
When you run WinScope,
you'll see that it's an MDI (Mul-
tiple Document Interface) pro-
gram with a toolbar and a
host of child windows. The Mes-
sages window shows a hierar-
chical list of all Windows mes-
sages. When you're tracing a
program, you can tell it to re-
cord all nnessages, or you can
select a small group. The API
window likewise lists all of the
Windows 3.1 API functions (in-
68 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
eluding the undocumented
ones from Schulman's Undoc-
umented Windows), and you
can have WinScope record all
API calls or a subset. Two of
the most important remaining
windows let you select the mod-
ules and windows you want to
trace.
At this point, you might be
thinking that WinScope is com-
plicated to use, but it's much
easier to use than it may seem
at first. Let's walk through a
short WinScope session to
see what it's like.
Recently, I wanted to find
out how Windows Tasi^ List
(called Task Manager in 3.0)
tiles the windows on the desk-
lop. I'd searched the 3.1 SDK
documentation and couldn't
find an API call that looked
like it would perform this cru-
cial task. WinScope might pro-
vide an answer, I thought, and
it did. In lact, it gave me more
information that I asked for
The easiest way to trace a
program in WinScope is to
choose Load Application
from the File menu. I did this,
and from the file browser I
chose TASKMAN.EXE. Win-
Scope ran Task List, mini-
mized itself, and started trac-
ing. I pressed Task List's Tile
button and, since that was the
only thing I needed to check,
pressed the Ctrl-Alt-S key com-
bination that toggles Win-
Scope's tracing on and off (as
with most options in Win-
Scope, you can customize
this hot key).
I double-clicked on the Win-
Scope icon to make it full-
screen and started examining
the Trace buffer. The Trace win-
dow displays messages and
functions, including return val-
ues, and gives the time each
event occurred relative to the
previous event. Parameters,
handles, and just about ail the
information you'd ever need
are there.
Even though Task List was
on my desktop for only a few
seconds and I pushed only
one button, the program and
Windows generated a zillion
messages and function calls.
This is normal. There's a lot go-
ing on behind the often-simple
scenery in Windows, and a pro-
gram like WinScope shows
you how much is happening.
The Trace buffer was far too
large to scan line by line, so I
decided to try WinScope's
Find command. The first thing
I did was to search for the
word tile from the top of the
buffer, but I started getting all
of the stuff dealing with display-
ing the Tile button. I wanted to
find the sequence of events
that started with pressing the
Tile button, so I decided to
search from the bottom of the
buffer up. I hit pay dirt doing
this.
There was the API call I was
looking for: TileChildWindows.
But I hadn't been able to find
this call in my references. I dou-
ble-right-clicked on the func-
tion name to automatically
call up the 3.1 SDK Help and
was told that no function by
that name existed. Ahal It
must be undocumented! I
took a look at Undocumented
Windows, and there it was!
And there was something very
interesting just above the call
to TileChildWindows — a call to
GetKeyState with a parameter
of 10. I checked, and the key
represented by 10 is the Shift
key. Now, why was Task List
checking the status of the
Shift key? i experimented, and
sure enough, when I held
down the Shift key and
pressed the Tile button, the win-
dows on the desktop tiled hor-
izontally instead of vertically
WinScope had revealed an
undocumented API call and
an undocumented feature!
This is just one simple exam-
ple of the kinds of things you
can discover with WinScope,
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PROGRAMMING POWER
Tom Campbell
Only Paradox
offers similarly
elegant and
simple database
handling in
its language, but
ObiectPAL
ain't BASIC.
70 COMPUTE DECEMBER
VISUAL BASIC 3.0
I had planned to discuss Win-
dows Help files this month, but
the unexpected appearance
of Visual Basic on my door-
step last Friday changed my
whole weekend — and this
month's column.
Microsoft hasn't given us Vis-
ual Basic programmers call-
backs yet. What it has given
us is database programming
integrated neatly into the lan-
guage itself, so easy to use
that it constitutes a program-
ming revolution. What with the
ridiculously simple serial com-
munications and graphics sup-
port in the Pro edition, the new
database-handling features
give Visual Basic an unparal-
leled bang for the buck, A
heck of a lot of fun, too,
It's been widely reported
that Visual Basic 3.0 has the da-
tabase manipulation engine
from Microsoft Access built in.
What the press hasn't figured
out yet is that the result is in
many ways better than Ac-
cess itself! At the core of Visu-
al Basic 3.0 is the data control.
Pluck it from the Visual Basic
toolbox and drop it on your
form, and it appears, innocent-
ly enough, as a set of four VCR-
style buttons. Press F4 to
bring up the data control's
property list and set the Data-
baseName property to the
name of a database file (it can
be from Access, Paradox 3 or
3.5, dBASE \\\+ or IV or
Btrieve). You now have a list of
the tables and fields in the da-
tabase at your disposal with-
out having to type or remem-
ber whether the field was
called Last or Last Name, (An
Access or Btrieve file can con-
tain more than one tabic —
what most people call a data-
base — but the other products
hold only one table per file.)
Choose the table you want in
the RecordSource property
just by paging through it with
the arrow keys. In a new ap-
1993
plication, this control will be
the first one. and it will be giv-
en the default name Datal.
Now, for each field you
want on the form, use a text
box control. It has a new prop-
erty called DataSource, which
you'il set to the name of the ta-
ble, and a DataField property,
which you'll set to the name of
the field you want tt to display.
Finally, you might wish to
add a few command buttons.
Double-click on one and give
its Click procedure this line of
code.
Datal .Recordset.AddNew
This will be the New button to
add records, so give it the cap-
tion New. Another button will
contain this code for its Click
procedure.
Dalai. Recordset. Delete
Dalai . Recordset. MoveNext
You now have a working da-
tabase manager that will let
you add and remove records
with all the Windows trim-
mings of mousing, font con-
trol, and WYSIWYG printing.
Oh, and you can give away
as many copies of the pro-
gram as you wish. Suddenly,
the cost threshold for a devel-
oper to create and distribute
robust, easy-to-use Windows
database applications has
dropped from about $1,000
to a couple of hundred. The
Visual Basic Professional edi-
tion lists for several hundred
more and is well worth the
money, but the Standard edi-
tion is an unbeatable value. If
you're an old database hack
or plan to make a living off cre-
ating Visual Basic 3.0 data-
base applications, go for the
Pro, but if you're working with
a tight budget, the Standard
will do fine.
What's extraordinary is that
it's actually easier to create a
simple database application
in Visual Basic than in Ac-
cess. The generic button
code you just saw, for exam-
ple, doesn't work in Access,
which needs a frightening ag-
glomeration of intricate Ac-
cess Basic statements and
Windows API calls to do the
same thing. And Access
won't let you attach code di-
rectly to a button the way Vis-
ual Basic has always done.
You must first create a macro
and then attach that macro to
a button. In some ways the
macro approach is more flexi-
ble; Access even stores its
macros in standard Access da-
tabase files so they're easier
to share among applications.
In all, though, I'm more com-
fortable with the Visual Basic
direct manipulation approach.
It's more natural to think of an
object having code attached
to it than to think of going
through an intermediary such
as a macro. Visual Basic 3.0
also handles some of the com-
mon "error" conditions auto-
matically that Access
doesn't. It won't bother you
when you click the next re-
cord button at the end of the
database (excuse me — ta-
ble), whereas Access treats
that as an error and puts up a
message offering to halt the
macro attached to that
button.
That's not nearly all, of
course. The language now
has support for database ma-
nipulation, and it doesn't stint
anywhere. The manuals, bor-
rowed from the already su-
perb Access documentation,
are chock-full of realistic exam-
ples that leave nothing to
chance. Only Paradox offers
similarly elegant and simple
database handling in its lan-
guage, but ObjectPAL, the Par-
adox language, ain't BASIC.
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Windows video iias
arrived, aiong
with a Pandora's box
of troubles— and
a dipiomafs pouch of
compromises.
WINDOWS VIDEO
This month, I'm reporting on my
experience with the new Video
for Windows capture boards
and recording software.
Since January I've worked
with the Creative Labs Video
Blaster, the Supermatch Video
Spigot (which has been ac-
quired by Creative Labs), and
the Intel Indeo. Of the three, I
like the Spigot best. As I ex-
plain how all this works, you'll
see why.
PC video is playing catch-
up with fvlacintosh video. A cou-
ple of years back, Apple intro-
duced a technology called
QuickTime, which allows you
to record and play movies on
your Mac. The images are
small — most QuickTime mov-
ies run in a window about 160
pixels by 100 pixels.
fvlany video capture boards
can capture 640- x 480-pixel
or 320- X 200-pixel videos,
but the recommended size
(and the default on some of
these systems) is 160 x 100.
If you need to be able to cap-
ture video at 320 x 200 or
greater size, you'il pay a price
in processor speed. One of
the fastest video capture
boards, the Intel Indeo, can
handle no more than 320- x
200-pixel capture when it's
placed in a B6-rvlHz DX2 com-
puter. The same goes for the
Spigot when it's installed in a
50-rv1Hz DX.
Is 320 X 200 good enough?
It's better than 160 x 100. But
there's a significant trade-off
between the size of each
screen and the number of
screens captured per second.
At 160 X 100 pixels, the
boards can capture up to 25
screens per second. At 320 x
200 pixels, the speed drops to
about 15 screens per second.
To perceive a series of still pic-
tures as smooth action, the hu-
man eye needs to see them at
a rate of at least 32 screens
per second.
At higher resolutions, the
problem becomes even more
bothersome. I've tried captur-
ing 640 X 480 screens, but
even at speeds as low as five
screens per second, the
boards couldn't keep up.
Despite its problems, ani-
mation at 320 X 200 is good
enough to serve as an accom-
paniment to a stored voice mes-
sage. The files store both
voice and video; their exten-
sion is AVI (AudioA/ideo Inter-
leaved).
Although Windows video is
admittedly an early technolo-
gy, that doesn't mean you
should ignore it. I've found it
useful for producing digital
still pictures. I deliver technical
seminars on PC troubleshoot-
ing, support, and mainte-
nance, I develop course
books filled with advice, warn-
ings, and anecdotes. For
years the books have lacked
photographs. My staff in-
cludes people with excellent
drawing skills, and drawings of-
ten get the point across, but
sometimes nothing but a pho-
tograph will do.
You'll get heartburn if you
try to create videos with these
capture boards, but you can
easily make color stills with al-
most all of them — and that's
why I've come to love them.
I recently ripped the hard
disk section out of one of my
course books and replaced it
with a how-to section on
SCSI. Anyone who's used
SCSI knows that one of the
most annoying things about it
is the profusion of cable types
in the SCSI world. Believe it or
not. you hook up two SCSI
devices with any one of four
different kinds of cables, de-
pending on v/hat the maker of
the SCSI peripheral felt like us-
ing, fvlost SCSI host adapter
boards have connectors for
two of those cable types. Be-
fore you venture to link togeth-
er a daisychatn of SCSI periph-
erals, you should know what
connectors to look for. What's
the best way to include pic-
tures of the cable types and
some common adapters? Dig-
ital stills.
Using a regular video
camcorder, I walked around
my office, borrov/ing cables
and shooting them from differ-
ent camera angles. Then I
hooked up the camcorder to
the video capture board and
replayed the tape into the PC.
When I found shots that I
liked, 1 just clicked on the Cap-
ture Single Frame option. In-
stantly, I had a 24-bit BMP im-
age of the cable. When an
image wasn't quite clear
enough, I enhanced it using
Gray F/X, a terrific Image en-
hancer (with, unfortunately,
one of the worst user interfac-
es in the world). Then I used
Paint Shop Pro, probably the
best shareware image proces-
sor for Windows, to convert
the image to gray scale,
popped the image into my doc-
ument, and voila! Instant illus-
tration. This, by the way, is one
reason that I don't like the In-
tel Indeo board. It won't do sin-
gle-frame captures without
some fiddling around. Both
the Spigot and the Blaster will
do single-frame captures with-
out any trouble.
Here's what you will need to
get started with image cap-
ture.
• A Windows-capable ma-
chine of at least 25-MHz
speed (486 preferred)
• RAM of 8MB-12(V1B for
most capture boards (16MB is
actually bad for most capture
boards — see below)
• Atleasta256-co1orcapa-
biiity for video under Windows,
16-million-color (24-bit) capa-
bility preferred
• Plenty of available hard
disk space for capture
• A video capture board
• Some source of VHS or Su-
per VHS video signals (either
a VCR or a camcorder)
• A Windows-compatible
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sound board (optional)
It's a hefty list, but it's not
as bad as it looks. Let's start
witti the PC. It should have a
fair amount of CPU horsepow-
er because of the volume of
data running through it. You
can use a 386, but this is one
case where having a 486 will
really pay off in speed of
execution.
You'll need a video board
capable of working with a lot
of colors, or at least a lot of
grays. The number of colors
you'll see is determined by
your video board and the
kind of video driver you use.
Drivers for 256 colors are
common these days, so if
you've got Super VGA, use
the 256-color drivers.
Screen resoiutions above
VGA's 640 X 480 are not nec-
essary, and they'll slow
dov^m the capture process
unnecessarily, so use 640 x
480 with 256 colors as your
video mode when working
with video capture. The next
step up for many video
boards is a 16-million-color
(24-bit) mode. You can live
without a 24-bit mode, but
there will be times when
you'd like to have it, so keep
the drivers around (if your
board can use them). You
won't use the 24-bit mode
most of the time because, as
you'd expect, it slows proc-
essing speed. Under no cir-
cumstances should you try
to do Windows video cap-
ture with a 16-color board.
For the best video speed,
look for a video accelerator —
one that interfaces via local
bus, if possible. Although vid-
eo speed is important, it
seems that no video is fast
enough to satisfy the Micro-
soft Video for Windows pro-
gram. Every time you start it
up with a new video driver,
it runs a speed benchmark
on the video board and al-
ways finds it lacking, Even
what may be the fastest Win-
dows video available {an ATI
VLB Mach 32) was deemed
too slow for Video for Win-
dows. I have concluded that
there's just no satisfying this
program.
When you buy a disk drive
for use with Windows video,
buy more than you think you'll
need. I once recorded ten min-
utes of normal VHS video, on-
ly to find that it took up 160MB
of disk space. Not everything
is going to take up that much
space, but 3.75MB for each
second of recording will con-
vince you to keep your vide-
os brief.
Now that I've told you to
buy the most computer that
you can lay your hands on,
you might expect that I
would proceed to recom-
mend lots and lots of RAM,
but surprisingly, many video
capture boards will not work
if you have 16MB or more.
Most video boards are
overlay boards. They contain
1MB of RAM, which is used
to store data, and they must
share that 1MB with the
CPU. It's the primary vehicle
for communication between
video capture boards and
the CPU. This megabyte of
RAM must sit somewhere in
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below the 16MB mark.
Most 386DX and 486DX
clones only offer memory ex-
pansion options of 4MB,
8MB, 16MB, 20MB (possi-
biy), and 32MB. But if your
machine has 16MB or more
of RAM, there isn't any room
for the megabyte on the vid-
eo capture board. As a re-
sult, you're limited to 8MB as
a maximum amount of memo-
ry. True, some major-brand
computers offer 12MB be-
cause of their proprietary
memory structures, but
that's not a heck of a lot bet-
ter than SMB. It's ironic that
you need a Windows Ferrari
in order to do video capture,
but when it comes to RAM,
you're a pedestrian.
This memory debacle isan-
other reason to love the Spig-
ot. It doesn't have one of
those silly memory buffers.
All it needs is an 8K area
that fits somewhere between
640K and 1024K, which is
child's play to configure (at
least when you compare it to
the other alternatives). The In-
deo has similar require-
ments, but it seems to have
some undocumented use of
memory that causes it to con-
flict with other boards; I've
spent many an afternoon la-
bohng to make my Intel In-
deo board work with my Intel
Express 32 Ethernet card.
Once you've got the right
machine, you need the right
input signals. Most video
boards will accept either
VHS or Super VHS signals
as input. A Super VHS
source is a better choice, as
it provides higher-quality in-
put — or does it? As it turns
out, the question of im-
proved resolution is relevant
only on tape playback. If
you're piping the camera's
output straight into the cap-
ture board, it doesn't matter
whether you've got an 8-mm,
VHS, or Super VHS camera.
An inexpensive VHS camera
will do as well for direct input
as a more expensive cam-
era. So, you can save some
money on your input device.
A much better way to
spend your money would be
to acquire a VCR with an
above-average pause capabi I-
ity That makes it easier to ex-
tract a single frame from a se-
quence. Although capture
boards are generally able to
grab single frames on the fly,
it's nice to have a rock-solid
picture on the screen to cap-
ture. If you don't have a good
pause, you can still get a
good motionless video image
by putting your camera on a
tripod and taking about two
minutes of video of a motion-
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Edited by Richard C. Leineci<er
Inserting
nonheyboaril
characlers
the easy way and
liringing a
little UNIX to DOS
Simple Blocks
"Tips & Tools" in the October
1992 issue contained a tech-
nique for embedding an AS-
CII character 255 in a subdi-
rectory so that someone
couldn't casually enter the
subdirectory and look around.
It's a major pain to use the
numeric keypad to create
these directories and enter
them. That's why I created
three batch files— MDD, RDD.
and CDD — that create and
use these extended directo-
ries. {Please note that CDD is
an internal 4D0S command.
If you are using 4D0S. give
this command a different
name.)
Use them only when you
want security. Just use the
command MDD instead of
MD, the command RDD in-
stead of RD, and the com-
mand CDD instead of CD.
You won't be able to name di-
rectories with extensions,
since the extension is where
the ASCII character 255 is
embedded.
Where you see <Alt+255>
in the listings, you should
hold down the Alt key while
typing 255 on the numeric key-
pad. When you release the
Alt key after typing in the val-
ue 255, a blank character will
be inserted into the batch
file. You won't be able to see
this character, but it'll be
there protecting your directo-
ries. Here is MDD. BAT
©ECHO OFF
!F"%1"=="" GOTO USAGE
SET TIVIPSUB=%1.<Alt+255>
MD %TIVIPSUB%
GOTO END
:USAGE
ECHO This creates a directory
ECHO with a non-ASCII character
ECHO embedded In it. You can
ECHO type only eight characters
ECHO and no extension. The
ECHO non-ASCII character Is
ECHO embedded in the extension
ECHO portion of the directory
ECHO name.
GOTO END
:END
SET TWIPSUB=
Here is RDD.BAT
©ECHO OFF
IF "%r'="" GOTO USAGE
SETTIVIPSUB=%1.<Alt+255>
RD %TIVIPSUB%
GOTO END
:USAGE
ECHO This removes a directory
ECHO with a non-ASCII character
ECHO embedded in it. You can
ECHO type only eight characters
ECHO and no extension. The
ECHO non-ASCII character is
ECHO embedded in the extension
ECHO portion of the directory
ECHO name.
GOTO END
:END
SET TIVIPSUB=
And finally, here is CDD.BAT
©ECHO OFF
IF "%1'W" GOTO USAGE
SETTMPSUB=%1.<All+Z55>
CD %TMPSUB%
GOTO END
: USAGE
ECHO This enters a directory with
ECHO a non-ASCII character
ECHO embedded in it. You can
ECHO type only eight characters
ECHO and no extension. The
ECHO non-ASCII character is
ECHO embedded in the extension
ECHO portion of the directory
ECHO name.
GOTO END
:END
SET TMPSUB=
RICHARD C. LEir^ECKER
REIDSVILLE. NC
Remove Multiple Flies
I work with DOS and UNIX,
and the UNIX rm (remove)
command should have been
included with DOS. It deletes
several files (or file groups) at
once.
To use it. you just type rm
followed by the files you want
to delete. If you wanted to de-
lete all of the EXE files that
start with R, as well as the
TXT files , you'd type rm
r'.exe '.txt. Here's a batch
file that gives you the rm com-
mand in DOS, Put it some-
where in your path, and use it
anywhere. Its name is
RM.BAT
©ECHO OFF
IF "%1"==""G0T0 USAGE
IF "%1"=='7?" GOTO USAGE
:8TART
IF"%1"=="" GOTO END
REM Remove ECHO Y I from the
REM following line if you want to
REM be prompted for each
REM wildcard delete.
ECHO Y I DEL %1
SHIFT
GOTO START
:USAGE
ECHO This batch file deletes
ECHO the files (or file groups).
ECHO Wildcards are allowed.
ECHO Example: RM '.TXT
R*.EXE
:END
PARIN KADAKIA
REGO PARK, NV
Disable Break
In the January 1992 issue,
you published a tip that gave
four lines to add to the AU-
TOEXEC.BAT file for comput-
er security. This works fine un-
less someone knows that
pressing Ctrl-Break will abort
the batch file.
To fix this loophole, you
can redirect the input and not
let the batch file try to abort.
All you have to do is add the
line CTTY NUL before the
four lines and the line CTTY
CON after the four lines.
Here's my version.
CHY NUL
:START
IF EXIST B:KEY.BAT GOTO
END
GOTO START
:END
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More time
and recovering
tram liard
disk disaster
More Time
Here's one more way to get
your computer to pririt the
time without stopping to re-
quest the correct time^ These
programs, QTIME.COM and
QDATE.COM, simply get the
time and date and print it on
the screen.
You can type these files in
using the DOS Debug com-
mand. Make sure the DOS pro-
gram called Debug is in your
path or the current directory.
In these examples, the italic
text is what the computer
prints; the roman text is what
you should type. One way to
be sure you gel these pro-
grams exactly right is to have
someone read the numbers
to you as you type them in. An-
other way suggested by one
of our readers is to read the
numbers into a tape recorder
and then play them back as
you enter the program code.
debug qtime.com
File not iound
-elOO b4 09 ba 74 01 cd 21 b4
-e1D8 2c cd 21 8a c5 3d Oc 7e
-ell 08 2c Oc c6 06 85 01 70
-e113 go d4 Oa 80 c4 30 04 30
-e 120 8b dO 36 dB 80 fa 30 75
-e 128 02 b2 20 b4 02 cd 21 8a
-e130 d6 cd 21 b2 3a cd 21 8a
-e 138 c1 d4 Oa 80 c4 3D 04 30
-e 140 8b do 86 dS b4 02 cd 21
-e 148 8a d6 cd 21 b2 3a cd 21
-e 150 b4 Zc cd 21 Sa c6 d4 Oa
-e 158 80 c4 30 04 30 8b dO 86
-e 150 dS b4 02 cd 21 8a dG cd
-e 168 21 b4 09 ba 85 01 cd 21
-e 170 b4 4c cd 21 43 75 72 72
-e 178 65 6e 74 20 74 69 6d 65
-e180 20 69 73 20 24 61 24
-RCX
CX 0000
:87
-W
lVr///ng 0087 bytes
-Q
the number 15164 will appear
on your computer screen.
debug qdate.com
File not found
■elOO h4 09 ha 59 01 cd 21 b4
-e1D8 2a cd 21 Sa c6 d4 Oa 80
-ellO c4 30 04 30 Bb dO 86 d6
-e118 BQ fa 30 75 02 bZ 20 b4
-e 120 02 cd 21 8a d6 cd 21 b2
-e128 Zf cd Z1 b4 Za cd 21 Ba
-e 130 cZ d4 Oa 80 c4 30 04 30
-e 138 8b dO 86 d6 b4 DZ cd 21
-e140 8a d6 cd 21 bZ 2f cd 21
-e148 b4 2a cd 21 81 e9 6c 07
-e15D 8a c1 M Oa 80 c4 30 04
-e158 30 Sb dO 86 d6 b4 02 cd
-e160 21 8a d6 cd 21 b4 4c cd
-e168 21 43 75 72 72 65 6e 74
-e170 20 64 61 74 65 20 69 73
-6 178 20 24 24
-RCX
CX 0000
:7b
-VI
Writing 007b bytes
-Q
If you run the Checksum pro-
gram (the most recent version
of Checksum was published
in "Tips & Tools" in the July
1993 issue) on QTIME.COM,
78 COMPUTE DECEtvlBER 1993
If you run the Checksum pro-
gram on QDATE.COM. the
number 14344 will appear,
BRADLEY M SMALL
GREENSBORO. NC
What Do You Do?
Recent problems with my PC
have forced me to take a
crash course in computer
crashes. What do you do if
everything fails? There are
some steps that you can fol-
low. First, you should alv/ays
be prepared. Make sure you
have a complete backup and
an emergency boot disk that
contains your current AUTOEX-
EC. BAT and CONFIG.SYS
files as well as FDISK.COM
and FORMATCOM. To help
recover, you should also
have a printout of your Setup
screen. To get the printout,
go to Setup, turn on your print-
er, and press the Print
Screen key. If you have ad-
vanced setup screens, also
do printouts of these. Keep
your emergency boot disk up-
to-date and put it and your Set-
up printouts in an envelope be-
side your computer, If you lose
the envelope, make a new
emergency kit immediately.
When you discover that
you can't boot from or access
your hard disk, you'll be pre-
pared. Boot from your emer-
gency floppy, go to Setup,
and compare the contents of
the Setup screen to your print-
outs. Make any necessary
changes, and try rebooting
from your hard disk.
If your hard disk still won't
respond, turn off your comput-
er, pull the plug, and pull
your boards, one by one.
Press all the chips on the
boards, pull and immediately
replace all of the jumpers (pull-
ing the jumpers and replac-
ing them will ensure there is
good contact), and gently rub
a pencil eraser on the con-
tacts of the board along the
edge that goes into the expan-
sion-bus slot. Pull and imme-
diately replace all cables.
Then try rebooting from your
hard disk again,
if you still can't boot, Fdisk
and Format /s your hard disk.
Run Spinrite or some other di-
agnostic software to make
sure all of your bad sectors
are marked. If the computer
still won't boot from the hard
disk, it's time to call a tech-
nician. There's probably some-
thing wrong with the disk me-
chanically or electrically.
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GREENSBORO, NC
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BY DAVID ENGLISH
Recently, I had a stimulating talk with Bob Able,
who might best be described as a new-media
maven. He developed his craft in both commer-
cial and documentary films (his experience
incfudes working with Stanley Kubrick on the star gate
sequences for 2001: A Space Odyssey and with David
Wolper on the award-winning "Making of the President"
television series).
More recently, he headed the large team of creative
artists and programmers that created the most Impres-
sive multimedia title I've ever seen. It's called Columbus:
Encounter. Discovery and Beyond. Columbus stands
head and shoulders above the usual PC-
based multimedia titles. Because it was
created for IBM's Ultimedia platform
it features higher-resolution graph
ics and higher-quality sound
than have generally been avail
able with MFC-based mul
media titles.
What does Able see as
the future of multimedia?
Not surprisingly, he views
the possibilities of multi-
media through the eyes
of a filmmaker. He stress-
es that full-motion video
is technically just around
the corner, yet we haven't
learned how to combine
the art of narrative with the
tools of the medium. No
one knows how to tell a story
in multimedia.
I think Able has put his fin
ger on what's wrong with many
of today's computer games— and
where these new interactive movies
might lead us. In narrative films, the story
and characters are everything. The best films
such as Welles's Citizen Kane, Kubrick's 2001: A
Space Odyssey, Gance's Napoleon, Eisenstein's
Potemkin, and Kurosawa's Tiie Seven Samurai, use tech-
nique to tell the story. Kane's flamboyant editing and
composition, 200Ts stark realism. Napoleon's emotionai-
ly charged camera movements, Potemkin's dynamic
editing, and Samura/'s restrained lyricism serve the
story's narrative line, help create the story's tone, and
further the development of the characters,
While many of today's multimedia games dazzle us
with their fluid motion (The 7th Guest), imaginative
graphics (Spaceship Warlock), and photorealistic
characters (tHell Cab), we're still in the early stages of
developing a vocabulary for the new medium.
As a student in the Department of Cinema Studies
at New York University, 1 attended a fascinating series
of courses on D. W. Griffith. Each semester, we looked
at a single year of Griffith's work. As we viewed the
films in chronological order, we could see Griffith try
different techniques, such as closeups, tracking shots,
and parallel editing (two similar stories told simultane-
ously). Griffith would never use these techniques for
their own sake — they would always be used to serve
the story. During those early years, Griffith developed
these techniques until he had refined much of
today's vocabulary of filmmaking.
In a similar way, today's multimedia
developers are attempting to develop
a vocabulary that grows from the
peculiarities of their new medi-
um, Whereas a closeup is
used in film to bring you clos-
er to a character's point of
view, multimedia artists
might use the interactive
nature of the medium to
let you choose the char-
acter's personality that
most closely resembles
your own. Whereas a
tracl<ing shot opens up
the space of a film nar-
rative and signals where
the story will soon lead,
multimedia artists might
use three-dimensional
sound to signal a similar
shift in direction. And whereas
parallel editing allows a filmmak-
er to weave two similar stories into
a third, more complex story, we may
see multimedia products with a variety
of interlocking stories that the viewer can run
chronologically, by character, or by location (as
opposed to simply having three alternate endings).
Able has shifted his energies from film to multimedia
because he instinctively believes in the potential of multi-
media. Hundreds of creative people have chosen a simi-
lar path for the same reason. It took 30 years for film to
develop into a true art form, but I'm betting that this time
things will move much faster. We're on the verge of hav-
ing software titles with full-screen, full-motion video — by
the year 2000, the medium should be firmly in place.
With people such as Bob Abie trying to figure out what
makes multimedia tick, we may be witnessing the birth of
the twenty-first century's greatest art form. J
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BY DAVID ENGLISH, PHILLIP MORGAN,
AND LISA YOUNG
It's been a great year
for multimedia. Sound
cards and CD-ROM
drives are selling so
fast that stores can't keep
Ifiem on tfie shielves. Level
2 MPC upgrade kits (witfi
16-bit sound cards and
double-speed CD-ROfvl dri-
ves) have pushed down the
prices of Level 1 upgrade
kits to less than $400. The
trickle of CD-ROM software
has turned into a flood of
titles. In short, multimedia
products are in demand,
and they make great gifts.
While we've refrained
from including the most
expensive multimedia prod-
ucts, such as fully equip-
ped multimedia PCs
($1,500 and up) and The
Oxford English Dictionary
on CD-ROM ($895), we've
also refrained from cram-
ming in lots of inexpensive
but useless multimedia
products. If you're not pre-
pared for the sticker shock,
you might pool your
resources with friends or
family members.
It'll be worth it— despite
the expense. Imagine the
delight on your loved one's
face when that strange
oblong package turns out
to hold a pair of stylish mul-
timedia speakers, or that
tiny flat box — which was
sure to be an audio CD —
turns out to be a top-selling
muitimedia title.
To simplify things, we've
divided the 50 products into
three basic categories: mul-
timedia hardware, CD-ROf^
software, and disk-based
multimedia software.
Multimedia Hardware
1. Sound Blaster Digital-
Edge CD. If you've waited
to upgrade your PC to a
multimedia PC, you're in
luck. Now you can upgrade
to a higher standard. Cre-
ative Labs offers a multime-
dia upgrade kit that meets
the new Level 2 MPC speci-
fications. The $999 pack-
age includes a Sound
Blaster 16 ASP, a double-
speed multisession CD-
ROM drive, The Software
Toolworks Muitimedia En-
cyclopedia, Microsoft
Bookshelf, Macromed-
ia Action!, a micro-
phone, and speakers.
Creative Labs, (408) 428-
6600.
2-3. Fusion Double CD-
16 and Pro 16 Multimedia
System. Media Vision has
two Level 2 upgrade kits.
The Fusion Double' GD-16
(S799 external, $699 inter-
nal) includes a Pro Audio-
Spectrum 16 sound card, a
double-speed NEC CD-
ROM drive (model
55J), and four CD-ROM
applications (Compton's
Interactive Encyclopedia for
Windows, Battle Chess
Enhanced. Arthur's Teacher
Trouble, and The 7th
Guest). The Pro 16
Multimedia System (SI, 199)
includes a Pro Audio-
Spectrum 16 sound card, a
double-speed NEC CD-
ROM drive {model 84JD-1),
and eight CD-ROM applica-
tions (Compton's Interac-
tive Encyclopedia for
Windows, Battle Chess
Enhanced, Mantis, Civiliza-
tion, Macromedia Action!,
Mayo Clinic Family
Health Book, PC Karaoke,
and Where in the World !s
Carmen Sandiego? De-
luxe). Media Vision, (800)
348-7116,
4-5. Sonic Sound.
Suddenly, DSPs (Digital
Signal Processors) are
showing up in sound cards
and fax/data modems. The
16-bit Sonic Sound sound
card uses its DSP for
General MIDI wave table
synthesis (32 simultaneous
stereo instruments) and —
with an upgrade option —
extended MIDI and speech
recognition. The basic
package also includes
Sound Blaster and Ad Lib
support, as well as connec-
tors for SCSI CD-ROM,
MIDI, and joystick. Dia-
mond Computer Systems;
(408) 736-2000: $299 for
Sonic Sound. $129 for the
upgrade option.
6. Maestro 16vr. If you
like to play games, check
out the 16-bit Maestro 16vr
sound card, which also
uses a DSP for voice recog-
nition and General MIDI
instrument sounds. You
receive a special voice
recognition version of
Interplay's Star Trek: 25th
Anniversary, along with the
usual Sound Blaster and Ad
Lib support: connectors for
SCSI CD-ROM, MIDI, and
joystick; and utility software.
This version lets you control
the game with verbal com-
mands, which you give
using the provided micro-
phone headset. Computer
Peripherals, (805) 499-
5751, $299.
7-9. Hello! Music!.
Looking for a plug-and-play
MID! upgrade for your
sound card? Consider
Hello! Music! ($449.00). It
includes an external Gen-
eral MIDI module that you
can hook up to your com-
puter's MIDI interface or
serial port, as well as a
selection of MIDI software
from Passport (Trax, a MIDI
sequencer program; MIDI
Player, a MIDI jukebox pro-
gram; and QuikTunes, a
collection of preprogram-
med MIDI tunes). Optional
accessories include the
CBX-K3 49-key MIDI key-
board ($299.95) and the
CBX-S3 powered monitor
speakers ($399.95). Ya-
maha, (714) 522-9011 .
10-12. A pair of multime-
dia speakers. What would
multimedia be without a
good set of speakers? They
should be magnetically
shielded so you can place
them on either side of your
computer screen and self-
powered so you don't have
to rely on your sound card's
inferior amplifier. Yamaha
(714-522-9011) sells an
excellent pair for $149,
called the YST-M10. For a
top-of-the-line sound, check
out the Altec Lansing Multi-
media ACS-300 (Altec Lan-
sing Consumer Products.
800-258-3280, $400 a pair)
and the Power Partner 570
(Acoustic Research, 800-
969-2748, $475 a pair).
13. Extra CD-ROM cad-
dies. You can never have
too much money or too
many caddies. If you have
young kids around, it's a
good idea to keep your
most frequently used CD-
ROMs in their own caddies.
There's nothing like trying to
scrape peanut butter and
jelly off your CD-ROMs to
convince you to have
plenty of extra cad-
dies. Many places
charge $10 or more for a
caddy, but if you shop
around, you can find them
for $5 or less.
CD-ROM Software
14. Microsoft Encarta
Multimedia Encyclopedia
1994 Edition For Windows.
Microsoft has taken the arti-
cles from Funk and Wa-
gnalls New Encyclope-
dia and enhanced them
with generous portions
s year,
create some real
excitement.
Give a multimedia
of photographs, audio,
video, and animation. The
program's interface makes it
easy to find your way
through this huge amount of
information. You can ex-
plore events chronologically,
geographically, or concep-
tually, or you can search for
associated ideas using the
nine categories and 84 sub-
categories. Microsoft, (800)
426-9400, $395 (S99 until
December 31st).
15. Compton's Inter-
active Encyclopedia for
Windows. This new CD-
ROM version of Compton's
Encyclopedia uses images,
maps, graphs, audio, and
video to make the text
come alive. One new fea-
ture lets you store open
windows as a virtual work-
space. Compton's New-
Media; (619) 929-2500;
$395 for CD-ROM version,
$498 for combined CD-
ROM and printed version.
16. The New Grolier
Multimedia Encyclopedia.
Make learning fun for your-
self and your children with
the latest version of this mul-
timedia encyclopedia. Video,
animation, sound, and a raft
of color and black-and-white
Super VGA images bring the
excitement of CD-ROM tech-
nology to the complete text
of The Academic Amehcan
Encyclopedia. Grolier
Electronic Publishing, (800)
356-5590, $395.
17. Microsoft Dinosaurs.
Get detailed descriptions of
the lives of 80 dinosaurs and
dozens of other prehistoric
creatures with nearly 200
articles and more than 1000
illustrations and photo-
graphs. With hot-linked text
to connect you to more than
800 pop-up windows, you
can explore the material at
your leisure or take a series
MULI IMi:i)IA PC
Microsoft Encarta (number 14)
of guided tours. Microsoft,
(800) 426-9400, $79.95.
18. The Animals!. Visit
the San Diego Zoo in the
comfort of your own home.
You and your child can
explore all of earth's bio-
mes to learn about familiar
and exotic animals in their
natural habitats. This single
CD-ROfvl is packed with 82
videos. 1300 color pictures,
2500 pages of text, and 2
1/2 hours of sound data.
The Software Toolworks,
(800)234-3088, $119.95.
19. Microsoft Cinemania
'94 Interactive Movie Guide
For Windows, Search for
your favorite movie titles,
actors, and directors with
this top-selling CD-ROM
film reference. Cinemania
Includes all 19,000 capsule
reviews and ratings from
Leonard Maltin's Movie and
Video Guide, thousands of
entries from The Motion
Picture Guide and Tlie
Encyclopedia of Film, and
movie stills and audio clips
from major motion pictures.
Microsoft, (800) 426-9400,
$79.95.
20. SI CD-ROM Sports
Almanac. With 26 cate-
gories of sports information,
this title from Sports
Illustrated can satisfy the
most voracious stats
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appetite. It's a compilation
of 1991 stats, awards from
1931 to the present, obitu-
aries, profiles, and dozens
of SI articles. It also lists
year-by-year records for
each sport. Sports Illustra-
ted, (800) 593-6334,
$59,95.
21. Monarch Notes on
CD-ROM. For years,
Monarch Notes have help-
ed demystify the classics ;
for students. Now you can
have the entire collection
on a single CD-ROM,
Search for a word, name, or
phrase from any of the
nearly 200 titles — many of
which are long out of print.
The collection also includes
recorded voice passages,
pictures, and drawings.
Bureau Development, (201)
Delorme Mapping, (207)
865-1234. SI 69-
23. Mayo Clinic Family
Health Book. More than just
a book on CD-ROM, this
layman's health reference is
an impressive use of multi-
media. The program gives
you the complete text of the
1400-page book, hundreds
of color photos, animation,
voice, video, and hypertext.
Its text is nontechnical but
thorough. Interactive
Ventures, (612) 686-0779,
$99,95,
24. Mavis Beacon
Teaches Typing: Version
2.0 for Multimedia. The CD-
ROM version of the top typ-
ing program adds digitized
speech and digital audio
music. Multimedia Mavis
offers verbal dictation of ten
Street Atlas USA from Delorme Mapping (number 22)
808-2700, $99,
22. Street Atlas USA.
Browse through the streets
of your youth without leav-
ing home, Street Atlas USA
uses the US, Census
Bureau's TIGER files to
map every street in the
country. You can search by
ZIP code, telephone num-
ber, or street name.
prerecorded letters and lets
you add your own. There's
also a self-running overview
and demonstration of the
program. The Software
Toolworks, (415) 883-3000,
$99.95.
25. Fractal Ecstasy. View
the amazing patterns that
make up fractal images.
The program includes frac-
tal fly-throughs, over an
hour of Video for Windows
movies, and more than a
thousand full-screen fractal
images. Create your own
fractals with the program's
Fractal Creator, which
works with 30 different frac-
tal-generating formulas and
125 different color palettes.
Deep River Publishing,
(207)871-1684, $49.95.
26. Nautilus. This CD-
ROIvl magazine offers tradi-
tional bulletin board infor-
mation enhanced with CD-
quaiity pictures, music, ani-
mation, and film clips. You
can also use Nautilus to
establish two-way access
with Metatec's own online
service, which is similar to
CompuServe and GEnie.
Along with the typical mag-
azine material, you'll
receive shareware, free-
ware, fonts, programming
tips, and utilities. Metatec
Discovery Systems; (614)
761-2000; $9.95 for a Single
disc, S1 19.40 for a 12-disc
subscription.
27. The 7th Guest. This
is the first CD-ROM game
too large to fit on a single
disc (it ships on two).
Realistic video-generated
characters, high-resolution
3-D-rendered back-
grounds, and an excellent
musical score make this
computer game seem like
an interactive movie. Solve
the logical puzzles as you
move through a haunted
mansion in search of clues.
Virgin Games, (714) 833-
1999. $99.99.
28. Hell Cab- This ultra-
photorealist game features
state-of-the-art 3-D graph-
ics, sound effects, and
music. The plot involves a
New York City cab driver
(he's really a devil trainee),
prehistoric jungles, Nero's
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as Your Mind Will Travel.
Nine unique entry paths are available - one to suit
every style of learning. With Virtual Workspace'"
open multiple articles, pictures, videos,
sounds and animations to expand your
understanding. Idea Search
guides you through a network
of over 33,000 articles such as..
On CD ROM for
Windows™, DOS
and Macintosh®.
Access U.S. and vi/orld
history through the
new multi-level,
dynamic timeline.
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of your choice and open related articles
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World War I. Your goal is to
make it back to the airport
with your soul intact. Time
Warner Interactive, (800)
593-6334, $99.99.
29. Microsoft Golf for
Windows, Multimedia Edi-
tion, For the golfer with a
book. The CD-ROM's spo-
ken dialogue and text also
enhance the game. Sierra,
(800) 326-6654, $79.95.
31. European Racers.
Build your plastic mode! car
with the help of a high-reso-
lution CD-ROM. The pack-
age comes with one model
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CD-ROM drive, what could
be better than a golf game
on CD-ROM? The new mul-
timedia version includes
video 'flybys" of each hole,
a personal video golf pro
who offers advice for each
hole, and video demonstra-
tions of swinging and aim-
ing techniques. The pro-
gram is compatible with the
many Links Championship
Courses from Access.
Microsoft, (800) 426-9400,
$64.95,
30. King's Quest VI, In
this latest release in the
King's Quest series. King
Alexander attempts to res-
cue Princess Cassima from
the evil Vizier. He travels
among a mysterious set of
islands, whose lush graph-
ics were hand-painted and
then scanned into a com-
puter for the look of a story-
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kit, a Porsche 911 Slant
Nose, but the CD-ROM
includes the simulation soft-
ware for three additional
kits, which you can buy
separately at toy stores and
hobby shops. The program
shows your model rendered
in 3-D-polygon animation,
provides step-by-step
assembly instructions, and
includes a racing track
where you can square off
against five onscreen com-
petitors. Reveli-Monogram,
(708) 966-3500, $69.95.
32. Just Grandma and
Me. This interactive chil-
dren's storybook helps your
child explore language and
learn to read while having
fun. Accompanying Grand-
ma and Little Critter to the
beach, your child can
choose the Read to Me but-
ton to watch the animation
and listen to the story, or
choose the Let Me Play but-
ton to interact with the char-
acters. Braderbund Soft-
ware, (800) 521-6263,
$69.95.
33. Arthur's Teacher
Trouble. Like Just Grandma
and Me, Arthur's Teacher
Trouble is an interactive
children's storybook that
combines animated effects,
musical accompaniment,
and narration in a choice of
languages. It teaches
young readers (ages 6-10)
as it entertains with subtle
humor. Br0derbund Soft-
ware, (800) 521-6263,
$59.95,
Disk-based
Multimedia Software
34. SuperJAMI. Create
instant melodies, The pro-
gram includes an onscreen
piano keyboard that can be
controlled with your mouse
or computer's keyboard; an
Eas-0-Matic MusicMaker,
which makes it easy to
make musical decisions; 30
musical styles that include
rock, pop, dance, classical,
samba, and jazz; and
ready-made musical ar-
rangements and chord pro-
gressions. SuperJAMI is
appropriate for both begin-
ner and experienced musi-
Soloist (number 35)
cians and works with any
MIDI instrument. Blue
Ribbon Software, (404) 315-
0212, $129.
35. Soloist. This com-
puter game makes it easy
to learn melodic sight-read-
ing, Simply hook up a
microphone to your sound
card, select your instrument
and skill level, and play or
sing the notes that the pro-
gram displays on your
screen. Soloist doesn't
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require MIDI, offers 36 lev-
els of play, and Includes a
chromatic tuner to help you
tune your instrument, Works
with any musical instru-
ment — even your voice. Ibis
Software, (415) 546-1917,
$59.95.
36-42. A Sound Source
Unlimited sound clip pack-
age. Sound Source
Unlimited offers a variety of
popular sound clips to liven
up your Windows environ-
ment. Each package ships
with a utility that lets you
associate sounds with your
Windows system functions,
such as startup, shutdown,
General Protection Error,
and application launch.
Current collections include
Star Trek (359.95), Star
Trek; The Next Generation
($59.95), 2001; A Space
Odyssey (S59.95), Termi-
nator 2; Judgment Day
($47.95), Total Recall
($47.95), Star Wars
($37.95), and The Wizard of
Oz ($37.95). Sound Source
Unlimited, (800) 877-4778.
43. Sound Blaster: The
Official Booii. Pamper your
Sound Blaster with a book
of its own. This paperback
includes tips and tricks to
enhance playback and
recording, as well as a trou-
bleshooting guide that
shows you how to resolve
joystick difficulties, interrupt
conflicts, and volume prob-
lems. You also get a 3 1/2-
inch disk with dozens of
sound files, dozens of
songs and musical jingles,
and several popular Sound
Blaster utilities. Osborne
McGraw-Hill, $29,95,
44. The Turtle Tools for
Multimedia. Looking for an
inexpensive way to get into
digital audio, MIDI, and CD
audio? Take a look at The
Turtle Tools for Multimedia.
It includes WaveTools, an
audio-recording, -editing,
and -playback application:
Midisoft Session, a MIDI
sequencer; KeyPIayer, a
program that lets nonmusi-
cians play and record music
using just the computer key-
board; Sound-Attach, a utili-
ty that lets you attach WAV
and MIDI files to Windows
system functions; and
SoundBank, a CD-ROM with
over 300 sound effects in
five different formats. Turtle
Beach Systems, (717) 843-
6916, $89.
45-46. A professional-
quality sound-editing pro-
gram. Sound-editing pack-
ages such as Wave for
Windows 2.0 (Turtle Beach,
717-843-6916, $149) and
Sound Forge 2,0 (Sonic
Foundry, 608-256-3133,
$179) let you alter sounds
in ways that recording stu-
dios would have killed for
just 10 or 15 years ago.
We're talking about high-
quality stereo recording
direct to your hard drive,
with cut-and-paste editing
and nondestructive digital
effects, such as echo,
reverb, flange, fade, re-
verse, volume, and pan,
47. The t^orton
Speedhve. If your CD-ROM
drive can't keep up with
your CD-ROM programs,
you might need a software
cache for your drive.
DOS's SMARTDrive doesn't
cache CD-ROM drives, but
The Norton Speedrive
does. For owners of Level I
MPC and subMPC CD-
ROM drives, it may be the
least expensive way to
keep up with today's more
demanding CD-ROM pro-
grams. Symantec, (800)
441-7234, $99
48. Netroom 3, Are your
multimedia drivers taking up
jl'flew my kite instead; '.■•;
Br0derbund 's Just Grandma and /We (number 32)
so much memory you don't
have room for your pro-
grams? Netroom 3 loads
your sound card, CD-ROM,
software cache, network,
and other device drivers
into upper memory — leaving
as much as 630K for your
applications. The latest ver-
sion adds a cloaking tech-
nology that can move your
System and Video BIOS into
extended memory. Helix,
(718)392-3100,599,
49. Matinee, This is the
first screen saver to bring
full-motion video to your PC.
The disk-based version
($49.95) features 38 clips,
including monsters, car-
toons, go-go dancers, and
killer sharks. The CD-ROM
version ($59.95) includes
over 250 video clips in cat-
egories ranging from bikinis
to sci-fi, Access Softek,
(510)848-0606.
Only 49 multimedia gift
ideas? Don't forget a sub-
scription to COMPUTE
(COMPUTE Publications,
800-727-6937, $12.97 for 12
issues). With our new multi-
media section and regular
multimedia coverage in the
rest of the magazine, you'll be
fondly remembered through-
out the coming year.Q
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'■With Peter Pan, EA^Kids is doing
something absolutely new with
storytelling and giving real meaning
to the phrase 'interactive adventure'.
Peter Scisco, Kids and Computers
emember the sense of wonder you felt as
you watched Peter Pan discover he could really
fly? Well, in Peter Pan, A Story
Painting™ Adventure from EA*Kidsr
it's your child's imagination that
^■^an : ; - . really soars. Boys and girls ages
S-9 become the "hands of the
animator," to help Peter save Wendy from the
evil Captain Hook. Along with the Paintbox
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Palsr children actually change events in the
story, expanding their reading, problem-solving
and decision-making skills like never before.
It's the kind of fun your children will
return to again and again. Unless of course,
you're playing it yourself.
To order a FREE EA^Kids demo disk
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NEW MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTS
EDITED BY LISA YOUNG
Clear the Floor
Instead of going to ttie gym,
you can now just turn on
your computer for a person-
alized aerobics workout.
Fitness Partner, released by
Computer Directions, devel-
ops customized workouts
based on your weight-loss
or muscle-toning goals.
The CD-ROM compiles
your workout from 75 full-
motion video exercises and
includes video and audio
instruction from Roni
Smaldino, an IDEA-certified
aerobics instructor. Fitness
Partner can design as many
as nine personalized rou-
tines for ten different users.
The program also electroni-
cally tracks seven different
measurements and goals
for each person,
You can design your own
routine by mixing and
matching ttie 75 exercises,
setting the speed and num-
ber of repetitions for each
movement, and choosing
your favorite music. If you're
unfamiliar with a particular
exercise, you can use the
learning mode to find out
how to perform a movement.
Computer Directions
(209) 435-5777
$69.95
Circle Reader Service Number 530
New Entry-
Level Multimedia PC
If you've been thinking
about buying an entry-level
multimedia computer, this
could be the time to do it.
Radio Shack has Intro-
duced the Tandy Multi-
media Personal Computer,
a fully equipped 80486-
based multimedia PC
priced at less than $1 ,600.
The package includes a
Photo CD-compatible CD-
ROM drive, a Sound Blaster
92 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
Get In shape with the Fitness Partner CD-ROM.
Pro 8-bit audio card, Super
VGA graphics, 4MB of RAM
(expandable to 64MB), a
130MB SmartDrive hard
disk, and two 16-bit expan-
sion slots.
The Tandy Multimedia
PC ships with several multi-
media programs, including
The Animals!, The Software
Toolworks World Atlas.
Toolworks Reference Lib-
rary, and America Online.
The package also includes
DOS 6, a multimedia ver-
sion of Windows 3,1, and a
multimedia version
of Microsoft Works for
Windows.
Radio Shack
(817)390-3011
$1,599
Circle Reader Service Number 531
The Tandy Muitirriedia Personal Computer from Radio Shack
No More Sacrifice
Why should you have to
settle for an 8-bit sound
card just to save money?
With Media Vision's Pro
Audio 16 Basic, you can
add CD-quality sound to
your computer for less than
$200.
Compliant with both
MPC Level 1 and Level 2
standards, the Pro Audio 16
Basic offers 16-bit stereo
digital audio recording and
playback to 44.1 t<Hz. an
on-board FM synthesizer, a
software-controlled mixer,
MIDI support, and a game
port. It also supports DOS,
Windows 3.1, Windows NT,
OS/2 2.1, and NextStep,
and it's compatible with the
Pro AudioSpectrum 16,
Sound Blaster, and Ad Lib
sound cards.
The Pro Audio 16 Basic
package Includes DOS
and Windows software,
including Media Vision's
Pocket Tools (which allows
recording, editing, and
mixing under Windows
3.1), Dinosaur Adventure
from Knowledge Adventure
(which lets you explore the
prehistoric era of dino-
saurs through full-motion
video and stereo sound),
and a QuIckStart Installa-
tion program.
MediaVision
(800) 845-5870
$199
Circle Reader Service Number 532
Sight and Sound
Sony has introduced two
computer peripherals
designed to bring multime-
dia and video conferencing
applications to the PC. The
PCS-V2 and PCS-V4 com-
bine audio and video com-
ponents into a single com-
pact unit that fits on top of a
TERACTIVE HORROR
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RESTS I
Dracula is
back, driven by
revenge and a hunger for
human blood. Follow a
trail of vampire brides,
corpses, and wolf tracks
through the streets of London.
You direct the drama,
suspense, and passion as
you are drawn into a world of evil
where every decision and action you
make is inextricably tied to the fates
of those you love.
From the creators of
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective™
I
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r 90 minutes of captivating
video and an original
ithic soundtrack draws you into
sthe center of the action.
t| scenes propel
fn multiple pathways
toward the final confrontation.
Unique irh
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Contact your local retailer or call 1-800-877-4266.
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NEW IVIULTIMEDIA PRODUCTS
Pro Audio 16 Basic
desktop computer monitor.
Both products have a
high-quality color video
camera, unidirectiorial
microphone, speaker, vol-
ume control, and audio
mute switch. You can verti-
cally adjust the camera and
manually activate a privacy
shutter to disengage the
video capabilities. The
PCS-V4 will be available
with a full-duplex echo can-
cellation feature to reduce
unwanted echo.
The PCS-V2 and the
PCS-V4 work with most
types of computers and can
be networked in a number
of ways. They can also
function as audio and video
input devices for other mul-
Phillip's Brilliance 15 Monitor
94 COMPUTE NOVEMBER 1993
timedia applications.
The PCS-V2 is sched-
uled to ship in November,
while the PCS-V4 should be
released sometime in 1994.
Sony
(201)930-7194
$999— PCS-V2
Price TBA— PCS-V4
Circle Reader Service Number 533
Monitors TKat Sing
If you're looking for a moni-
tor to use with multimedia
and CD-ROM applications,
consider the Brilliance 15,
an autoscanning monitor
with stereo audio capabili-
ties built in.
The Brilliance 15 in-
cludes a stereo amplifier,
speakers, headphone jack,
and user-adjustable volume
control. It has a maximum
resolution of 1024 x 768 at
72 Hz. It also uses a 0.28-
mm dot pitch, as well as a
flat, square, black matrix
tube for high contrast and
bnlliant color rendition.
Other high-performance
display functions include
Constant Vertical Raster,
which automa-
tically maintains
the correct
vertical image
height for all
display
modes, and Ad-
vance Monitor
Deflection Con-
trol, which al-
lows fast, stable
switching
between display
modes without
disturbing tran-
sient distortion
effects.
The Brilli-
ance 15 is
backed by a
two-year parts-
and-labor war-
Sony's new PCS-V2 multimedia camera
ranty and has a mean time
between failures of 50,000
hours.
Philips Consumer
Electronics
(800) 835-3506
$699
Circle Reader Service Numiaer 534
Liglits, Camera,
interaction
VirtualClnema, from Hyper-
Bole Studios, is a technolo-
gy that creates three-
dimensional, interactive
films on CD-ROM. It uses
live actors, gives you a 360-
degree perspective of the
environment, and lets you
peek into the minds of the
characters. According to
the company, you actually
think the characters'
thoughts and recall their
memories.
With VirtualClnema, you
can go at your own speed,
repeating sections or fol-
lowing interesting tan-
gents. Several popular
types of interactive films
are planned, including
drama, comedy, and sci-
ence fiction.
HyperBole plans to
begin shipping its first
VirtualClnema product by
Christmas, with more titles
scheduled for release in
1994. Q
HyperBole Studios
(206)451-7751
Price TBA
Circle Reader Sen/ice Number 535
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FIRST WE MADE
WINDOWS.
NOW IT'S TIME
TO TALK.
With the new Microsoft"
Windows'" Sound System, just tell
your computer what you want it
to do. %u can customize your sys-
tem to respond to your personal
spoken commands. Even our new
directional microphone knows
exactly who you are.
This full set of audio software
has lots of options, too. Spice up
presentations with music or quotes.
Or proofread numbers as the com-
puter reads them back.
All for the price of a game.
"fou can also get this software
with the sound board included. So
go visit your nearest reseller to see
what's creating all the conversation.
Miaosatt
Making it easier
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MULTIMEDIA SPOTLIGHT
By David English
MEDIA VISION PRO 16
MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM II
It used to be easy to
choose a multimedia up-
grade kit. If the package
had an MPC label, you
knew the sound card and
CD-ROM drive would be
capable of playing the lat-
est CD-ROM titles,
This year, the decision
becanne more complicated.
On May 17, the Multimedia
PC Marketing Council
announced its Level 2 MPC
specifications. Now you have
to choose between Level 1
components {the earlier
standard) and Level 2 com-
ponents (the new standard),
With Level 2, the sound
card changes from 8-bit to
16-bit (for CD-quality
sound), the CD-ROM drive
runs twice as fast (deliver-
ing 300K per second), and
your video card should be
capable of displaying a res-
olution of 640 X 480 with as
many as 65,536 colors
(Level 1 requires only 640 x
480 with 16 colors). A Level
2 computer should be at
least a 25-MHz 486SX with
4MB of RAM and a 160MB
hard drive, while Level 1
calls for only a 16-MHz
386SX with 2MB of RAM
and a 30MB hard drive.
As you can see from the
Level 1 computer require-
ments, a change has been
long overdue. Most CD-
ROM software is already
optimized for Super VGA
(640 X 480 with 256 colors)
and at least a 486SX
processor. The latest titles
that use Video for Windows
and QuickTime for Windows
video clips need Super
VGA and a double-speed
CD-ROM drive. Rather than
leading the market, Level 2
simply reflects the de-
mands of today's multime-
96 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
dia software.
Just one week after the
MPC Marketing Council
announced the Level 2
specifications. Media Vision
introduced two Level 2
upgrade kits: the Fusion
DoubleCD 16 ($699 inter-
nal, $799 external) and the
Pro 16 Multimedia System II
{$1,199 internal). Both
include NEC double-speed
CD-ROM drives— though
the drive in the Pro 16 II kit
has an access time of 250
milliseconds, while the drive
in the Fu-
sion kit
has an ac-
cess time
of 350 mil-
liseconds-
TheProie
II kit also
includes
more
bundled
applica-
t i o n s
(eight
rather than four) and more
specialized audio software,
such as a MIDI sequencing
program, a professional
audio editor and mixer, and
a voice recognition pro-
gram. The Fusion kit is
designed for people on a
budget who might be new
to multimedia, whereas the
Pro 16 II kit is designed for
people who want to experi-
ment with computer-based
audio and are willing to pay
more for higher-quality
components.
In this review, we'll look
at the Pro 16 Multimedia
System II. Its sound card is
the improved Pro
AudioSpectrum 16 with two
output plugs — one for
speakers (which uses the
built-in amplifier) and one
for an external amplifier
{which bypasses the built-in
Pro 16 Multimedia System II
amplifier). It's capable of
CD-quality sound when
sampling in stereo at the full
44.1 kHz, though you'll
probably need a 486 to
record cleanly at that rate.
The card is well shielded
and provides a clear sound
with low background noise.
It's compatible with games
that support Sound Blaster
and Ad Lib sound cards, it
has joystick and SCSI con-
nectors, and it has separate
microphone and line input
jacks. While external MIDI is
support-
ed, you'll
have to
buy Media
Vision's
MIDI Mate
adapter to
use it. The
MIDI Mate
converts
the joy-
stick con-
nector into
one joy-
one MIDI
/IIDI OUT
stick, one MIDI IN,
THRU, and two h
connectors.
The CD-ROM drive is
NEC's double-speed 84JD-
1, It has the usual Level 2
throughput of 300K per
second, has an exceptional
access speed of 250 mil-
liseconds (Level 2 requires
400 milliseconds; Level 1
requires only 1000 millisec-
onds), and is Photo CD
multisession compatible (a
Level 2 requirement). Be-
cause it's an internal drive,
you'll need a free dhve bay
in your computer.
As I mentioned before,
Media Vision has tailored
this package for computer
users who like to experi-
ment with sound. Accor-
dingly, you'll find a variety
of powerful audio utilities,
including separate DOS
and Windows applications
that let you record, play,
and edit high-quality stereo
sounds, and separate DOS
and Windows applications
that let you play your audio
CDs. Other utilities let you
compress and decompress
audio files, control Win-
dows programs with your
voice, record and edit MIDI
files, and convert text to
spoken words.
As with many MPC
upgrade kits, you'll also
receive a generous bundle
of CD-ROM software. The
Pro 16 tl kit includes
Compton's Interactive En-
cyclopedia for Windows,
Mayo Clinic Family Health
Book, Where in the World Is
Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe,
Battle Chess Enhanced,
Mantis, PC Karaoke, Macro-
media Action!, and Civiliza-
tion. Finally, you'll receive a
disk-based multimedia pre-
sentation program, Action
2.5 for Windows.
This is quite a hardware
and software package. The
sound card and CD-ROM
drive sound terrific and
should easily handle to-
day's more demanding
Level 2 multimedia titles.
The QuickStart installation
software makes it relatively
painless to configure the
hardware for your system,
the audio utilities are pow-
erful and well selected,
and the bundled applica-
tions represent an excel-
lent value. If you're in the
market for a high-quality
Level 2 upgrade kit, you
can't go wrong with Media
Vision's Pro 16 Multimedia
System II.
MediaVision
(800)348-7116
SI. 199
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animated instructions to build a model of your car so it's easier to identify the
torched remains. Available for IBM on CD-ROM.
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PRODUCTIVITY CHOICE
If you're looking for an inexpensive page-layout
program that outsliines even the
high-end DTP packages, this program is for you.
William Harrel
PAGEPLUS 2.0
Serif's PagePlus consistently
leads the other economy desk-
top publishing packages in
useful features. Version 1.0
provided spot color separa-
tions when none of the devel-
opers of other under-$200
packages thought users need-
ed them (but soon found out
that users demanded them),
and it supported full increment-
al text rotation at a time vi/hen
you couldn't find it anywhere
else, even in the high-end
heavyweights, Ventura Publish-
er and PageMaker.
Version 2.0 again pushes
PagePlus ahead of the compe-
tition v/ith process color sep-
arations, a PANTONE color
palette, drag-and-drop text, in-
cremental graphics rotation,
OLE support, and a nifty table
editor
This surprisingly powerful
program makes page layout re-
markably easy. An example is
its versatile style sheets. Simi-
lar to the same feature in a
word processor, style sheets
let you format paragraphs or
selected blocks of text by sim-
ply assigning a predefined
style tag to them,
Some other low-end page-
layout packages don't sup-
port style sheets, and creat-
ing long documents with their
many different text formats is
entirely too much work. Some
high-end DTP programs,
such as Ventura Publisher
and Frame fy/laker, have style
sheets, but you need a lot of
perseverance and tenacity to
define and use their style
sheets. PagePlus 2.0 simpli-
fies the process by doing
away with a zillion options
most people don't use.
Also impressive is the text
frames feature. It makes it a
snap to jump text to different
sections of a document, such
as different pages in a news-
letter. You can also export the
document elements you cre-
ate in PagePlus as a graphics
file and import them into oth-
er applications, a feature not
found in other layout packag-
es. You could, for example,
create an ad or a graphic in
PagePlus and include it in a
WordPerfect document, such
as a business proposal.
ChangeBar is another win-
ning feature. It lets you easily
assign colors, borders, and
other attributes by clicking on
icons. ChangeBar is context-
sensitive, meaning that it
changes to accommodate
the currently selected tool,
When you select the Text
tool, for example, icons and
text boxes for changing
fonts, point size, and align-
ment are displayed. You can't
beat PagePlus's ChangeBar
for convenience.
The rulers are now mova-
ble. You can drag them like a
T square anywhere in the doc-
ument window to measure
and resize elements. If you
want to draw a six-inch line,
for example, you can pull
down the rulers to measure it.
The ability to pull the rulers in-
to your layout greatly enhanc-
es your ability to achieve pre-
cession. High-end DTP and
draw programs have support-
ed this option for a while; it's
nice to find it in an economy
package.
OLE support lets you keep
your documents current by up-
grading imported elements as
they change in the source ap-
plications, and the Table Edi-
tor (a slick little program that
puts PageMaker's utility of the
same name to shame) is OLE-
aware; you can edit your ta-
bles from inside PagePlus by
simply double-clicking on
them. You can also keep ob-
jects pasted from other pro-
grams, such as a Lotus
spreadsheet chart, current au-
tomatically. With OLE, each
time the chart changes, it's up-
dated in your layout.
98 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
While this program is load-
ed with high-end features, the
ability to create process color
separations is one of the
more significant. With this op-
tion, you can import color
graphics and photographs in-
to your layouts and separate
them on a high-resolution
imagesetter. You can then
use the resulting cyan, magen-
ta, yellow, and black (CMYK)
plates on a four-color printing
press to produce full-color doc-
uments. You can also create
spot color separations, which
consist of color elements stra-
tegicaily placed throughout a
document, such as a compa-
ny logo in a newsletter.
Few programs — especially
applications in this price
range — offer this level of pow-
er. Some high-end products,
such as FrameMaker and the
top Windows word proces-
sors (all of which claim DTP
prowess) stiil do not support
color separations. And the
few that do, such as Ventura
Publisher, are not as good at
it as PagePIus. Ventura, for
example, doesn't separate
CMYK TlFFs (TIFF 6.0),
which are quickly becoming
the industry standard. Not on-
ly does PagePIus make color
separations easy (just select
Process Separations in the
Print dialog box), but the en-
tire procedure, including cre-
ating PostScript print files for
printing at the neighborhood
service bureau, is explained
in PagePlus's Help files.
Still not convinced? For
another $40 you can buy
the PagePIus BumperPack,
which includes TypePlus,
ArtPack, and FontPack, along
with the basic PagePIus pro-
gram. TypePlus is a font-ef-
fects package similar to Ado-
be TypeAlign and Power Up
Software's TextAppeal. It lets
you fit and type text on
paths, such as curves, arcs,
and circles, as well as accom-
plish several other special ef-
fects. ArtPack is a collection
of over 500 full-color clip art im-
ages, and FontPack provides
120 TrueType fonts. You can
also purchase each utility sep-
arately for about S20 each.
One of the weaknesses oi
the original PagePIus is its
poorly written manual. The
manual for version 2.0 has
been completely revamped.
The Getting Started tutorial is
very well done. By the time I
finished it, I had almost mas-
tered the program. This is a
night-and-day improvement
over the documentation includ-
ed with the previous version.
The reference manual is also
thorough and helpful. Not on-
ly does it cover PagePlus's
pov/erful features, but it also of-
fers many useful DTP and lay-
out tips.
Serif's technical support
team has always been great.
The folks on the team are usu-
ally quick to answer the
phone, knowledgeable about
the program, and eager to
please. The popularity of
PagePIus 2.0 is so great,
though, that the support lines
now are sometimes clogged.
However, a few times I've
called about 8:00 or 9;00 in
the evening, and my calls
have almost always been an-
swered quickly.
All this praise is not meant
to imply that PagePIus 2.0 is
the ultimate DTP sofution. But
then, no product (not even a
$500+ package) is perfect.
Where PagePIus falls short is
in its long-document han-
dling. It doesn't support auto-
matic page numbering; you
must manually number each
page. You cannot combine
several chapters to build a
book, catalog, or directory.
Nor can you generate tables
of contents or indices automat-
ically, as you can in several
other programs, including
economy packages such as
Symantec's Easy Working
Desktop Publisher. The pro-
gram also lacks a spelling
checker and a search-and-re-
place feature. Granted, you're
supposed to take care of
most editing before you im-
port a file into your DTP pack-
age. However, it seldom
IBM PC or
compatible (80286
compatible, 80386
compatible
recommended),
2MB RAM (4MB
recommended),
bard drive witb
3MB tree (23MB
lor Bumpeif ack),
Windows 3.1,
mouse— $S9.95,
$99.95 lor
BumperPack
works out that way — especial-
ly if more than one person
works on or contributes to
your documents. Not having
a spelling checker and
search-and-replace means
that your text-intensive docu-
ments must be proofed thor-
oughly — which those of us
spoiled by computers resist.
What PagePIus 2.0 does, it
does extremely well, and to a
greater degree of proficiency
and with more ease than its
competitors. It provides al-
most all the power of Page-
Maker at a fraction of the
cost, and it's far easier to use
and learn. With all its features
and its low price, this pack-
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Circle Reader Service Number 253
DECEMBER 1993
SERIF
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COMPUTE 99
PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY
Bradley M. Small
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100 COMPUTE DECEMBER
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LOOK AT OS/2 2.1
OS/2 has arrived as a full-
fledged, widely supported op-
erating system. But many peo-
ple wonder whethier they're
safe giving up Windows and
DOS in favor of thiis muchi-her-
alded entry from IBM.
Tectinically, there's a lot to
talk about in OS/2 2.1. But if
you're like most people, you
probably don't care to hear
about operating systems, de-
vice drivers, and other low-
level techie esoterica. So I will
do my best to avoid such dis-
cussion and cut to the chase.
I'll begin by discussing how
OS/2 can affect your produc-
tivity.
Can the right operating sys-
tem increase productivity? It
can — if it meets the following
criteria. !t must allow you to re-
tain current systems that al-
ready work properly. It must
be relatively simple to imple-
ment. And it must provide fast-
er or more efficient ways to
solve your current problems
while allowing for growth.
OS/2 2.1 allows you to re-
tain current systems. If you
have it, you can run most of
your existing MS-DOS, Win-
dows, and OS/2 1 ,x applica-
tions. Under OS/2 you can run
a specific DOS session (which
is the equivalent of running a
specific version of DOS). If all
else fails, you can have DOS
on your hard drive and boot
from it using either Boot Man-
ager or Dual Boot. So even in
the worst-case scenario, you
can still maintain your current
systems until you've complete-
ly changed over to OS/2 and
found more efficient ways to
service those systems you in-
tend to keep.
I found OS/2 2,1 relatively
simple to implement. Installa-
tion was straightforward (by
simply following the manual, I
was able to install it without a
1993
hitch). It comes on either flop-
py disks or CD-ROM. Both ver-
sions install easily, but after go-
ing through the 20-odd disks
in the set, I considered the CD-
ROM version (which comes
with a 2-disk boot set) to be a
godsend!
The manual has an interest-
ing feature: On the inside of
the front cover in bold black
print is the phone number for
free technical support. I
called it several times both dur-
ing business hours and dunng
the evening, and each time, af-
ter a cheerful greeting, my
problem was solved — either im-
mediately or in a callback with-
in 24 hours. In these times
when companies are either of-
fering no technical support or
charging exorbitant fees for it.
free, high-quality technical sup-
port is much appreciated.
Once OS/2 is installed,
you'll need about 15 minutes
to an hour to get used to the
Workplace Shell, depending
on your experience with graph-
ical user interfaces (GUIs), in
my opinion, OS/2 is much eas-
ier to use than Windows, and
it behaves more like a real-
world desktop.
OS/2 2.1 provides faster
and more efficient ways to
solve your problems. Think
how many times you've said,
"I can't took up that phone num-
ber right now because I'm re-
calcuiating this spreadsheet"
or "I'm formatting a disk: you'll
have to wait." If you've ever
had to wait while a program ac-
cessed information or while
some DOS command was op-
erating, then you've experi-
enced a loss of productivity.
OS/2 is a 32-bit multitasking
operating system. That means
it can do more than one thing
at a time. The fact that it's a 32-
bit environment also means
that it will use memory much
more efficiently. You can for-
mat a floppy disk, download a
file from your favorite BBS,
and work in your word proces-
sor all at the same time (which
is what I'm doing right now).
OS/2 has a text mode and
a GUI mode; it will run DOS pro-
grams, Windows programs,
and OS/2 1.x and Zx pro-
grams, That should cover al-
most all of the software that
you're running right now. I say
"almost" because there are
still some programs that won't
run under OS/2 because they
use low-level hardware or non-
standard memory access. How-
ever, OS/2 does provide meth-
ods for running some trouble-
some programs (as well as a
listing of the programs that
just won't run).
OS/2 claims to be a "better
DOS than DOS." I thought
that meant that it should run
every DOS program ever writ-
ten, but after I thought about
it, I realized that was unrealis-
tic. There are many DOS pro-
grams that 1 can't run from
DOS without creating a spe-
cial boot disk or different AU-
TOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG-
.SYS files.
What makes OS/2 a "better
DOS than DOS" is that DOS
programs run faster under
OS/2 than they do under DOS.
More than one program can
be run at once, and each pro-
gram can have its session ad-
justed to run as efficiently as
possible.
OS/2 can rightly be called
a better Windows than Win-
dows also. The Windows appli-
cations that I ran were notice-
ably faster under OS/2, al-
though they seemed to load
more slowly. I found out that
once you have a Windows ses-
sion going, the loading time is
reduced, so the advantage is
still OS/2's.
Whole suites of applica-
tions are being ported to
OS/2. In next month's "Person-
al Productivity" column, we'll
take a look at the third-party
support for OS/2 and the po-
tential for growth of this ingen-
ious operating system. a
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ART WORKS
Robert Bixby
NEW ART
Anew
generation of
Harvard
Granhlcs lor
Windows
Two of the most useful prod-
ucts tfiat tiave crossed my
desk \n ttie past couple of
montlis are DynoPage and ttie
new Harvard Graphics for Win-
dows {in beta release). I've al-
so fiad tfie chiance to review
thie DigitArt woodcut collec-
tion (number 25 in tfie series)
from Image Club.
To be fair, I fiave to admit
tfiat Harvard Graphics was nev-
er strictly a charting program.
It was also one of the most full-
featured vector drawing pro-
grams for DOS. When it made
the big move to Windows
about a year and a half ago,
it stepped into the lion's den.
There are more drawing pro-
grams for Windows than you
can shake a T square at, and
most of them are excellent, in-
cluding one of the very first Win-
dows applications — a drawing
program from Micrografx,
You might recall that at ap-
proximately the same time Har-
vard Graphics for Windows ap-
peared, a drawing program
with a similar interface called
Harvard Draw was released.
Now much of Harvard Draw is
a part of Harvard Graphics,
with a lot of added effects,
and it's known as Harvard FX,
It's full of useful drav/ing tools
like Extrude and Blend. Har-
vard Graphics with Harvard
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FX may have all the drawing
tools most people need— par-
ticularly if those people create
charts — because that's the
main business of Harvard
Graphics. The 2.0 version
makes charting easier than ev-
er with a friendly tutorial that
helps you pick the right chart,
enter the proper data in the
right place, and come up with
a professional-looking chart
from the very first time out.
DynoPage is a printing util-
ity that you can use (under Win-
dows) to get more control over
your printer. Using it allows
you to specially format print-
outs for your printer for book-
lets, note cards, and so forth.
Once you have made the set-
tings in the print setup utility,
printing through DynoPage is
just like using the Print IVIanag-
er that comes with Windows,
except that you have many
more options for configuring
the page.
Image Club has released a
woodcut clip art collection. It's
composed of vector (EPS-for-
mat) monochrome graphics
that can be incorporated into
most vector drawing pro-
grams. The graphics are spe-
cially created to look as if they
were produced from wood-
cuts — products of that early
printing technology which re-
quired an artist to gouge a
block of wood to generate
graphics for the printed page
(most of this sort of art is now
done with linoleum blocks). I
found the collection to be utili-
tarian rather than imaginative,
but perhaps I'm expecting too
much from my clip art collec-
tions. It provides excellent
graphics for many uses, and
the roughly wrought look of
the drawings makes them dis-
tinctive, This collection would
make an excellent addition for
anyone doing professional
work that requires a home-
made appearance.
I guess that means desktop
publishing has come full cir-
cle — the standard output from
a desktop looks so profession-
al that now people are react-
ing against the perfection of
line that's so easy to produce
with a vector graphics pro-
gram and a laser printer.
The graphics in this collec-
tion inspired me to create
some woodcuts of my own us-
ing CorelDRAW!. The Power-
lines and simple autotrace
built into CorelDRAW! make
creating woodcuts a snap.
Gaea and James fvlerrick
wrote recently to ask how a lo-
go created in a paint program
could be made to appear
smoother on a page printed
with a laser printer
There are two basic solu-
tions. You can trace the logo
in a vector drawing program
(1st Design and Graphics
Tools have autotrace built in)
and then use the traced im-
age, which will be printed at
the resolution of the printer
rather than at the resolution of
the paint program (around 72
dpi). If this isn't realistic, you
can create the logo as large
as possible and then reduce
it for printout. By reducing a 72-
dpi raster drawing to 25 per-
cent of its original size, you
have effectively turned it into
a 300-dpi painting.
Thank you for writing, and
thank you for the sample mag-
azine you sent. It looks very
thought-provoking. Good luck
with your publishing venture.
Have a DTP tip you'd like to
share? Let me know about it
by calling (900) 884-8681 , ex-
tension 7010203 (sponsored
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magazine. And if you don't
have a tip, call to let me know
what you're up to, what soft-
ware you're using, and how I
can be of help. n
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Children team up with a special pal as they
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EAGLE EYE
MYSTERIES
When it comes to sneaking
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who says that his skate-
board has been stolen from
Shredd's Bike and Skate
Shop.
It's your child's task, along
with help from Jennifer or
Jake, to travel around the
town, questioning people and
gathering clues. To do this,
your child simpiy clicks on a lo-
cation on the town map,
which brings the chosen loca-
tion up on the screen. The log-
ical first step in the skate-
board mystery, for example,
is to go to Shredd's Shop,
where your child can ques-
tion Steve Shredd and his cus-
tomers, as well as examine
the workroom from which the
skateboard disappeared.
In each location, rectan-
gles indicate areas that your
child should examine or peo-
ple that should be ques-
tioned. Clicking on a rectan-
gle displays a portrait of the
person or the object along
with a text balloon containing
dialogue for the scene. Often,
Jennifer or Jake jumps in with
a comment like "Look at
that!" and points the child to-
ward a particularly valuable
clue.
Jennifer or Jake also helps
by recording the ciues on
TRAVIS (Text Retrieval And
Video Input System), a sort of
combination video recorder
and minicomputer that can
be used to review and soive
a case. After visiting ail loca-
tions marked on the map, talk-
ing to all suspects, and exam-
ining all evidence, your child
can click on TRAVIS and sort
through the ciues, choosing
the ones that best solve the
case.
It's the process of examin-
ing clues that really puts your
child's mind to work. Over the
course of a case, your child
discovers many clues, but on-
iy the five that seem to best
identify the culprit may be
used to solve the case. Sort-
ing through the ciues is a chal-
lenging task, forcing your
child to actually solve a case
rather than just guess at the
culprit. To add to the chal-
lenge, many mysteries have
several suspects; only careful
examination of the clues can
106 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
reveal the guilty party.
Of course, while evaluating
the clues, your child also re-
views the educational facts
gathered during the investiga-
tion. Because the facts are per-
tinent to the case at hand,
they blend in nicely with the
other clues. Again, the educa-
tional element is seamlessly in-
tegrated into the game.
If your child fails to choose
the correct clues or cannot
identify the guilty party, no pen-
alty is given; instead, the pro-
gram gently suggests that the
clues need more careful con-
sideration. Your child is al-
lowed unlimited guesses, but
the correct five clues must be
chosen and the culprit identi-
fied before your child success-
fully solves the mystery and
closes the case.
At the end of a mystery,
your child's partner reviews
the case, presenting all the
clues and describing how
they incriminate the culprit. Of-
ten, after a case has been
solved, children will discover
information during this review
that they overlooked during
the investigation. As a reward
for solving the case, children
receive a newspaper clipping
about the case or a thank-you
note from the victim. These re-
wards are added to the elec-
tronic scrapbook, which can
be viewed at any time.
Another nice feature Is
that, whenever players view
the map screen, the Eagle
Eye control panel is accessi-
ble. This enables children to
perform such tasks as switch-
ing partners, turning sound
on or off, registering a new
player, viewing a scrapbook,
saving a case, starting a new
case, or quitting the program.
If all Eagle Eye had to offer
were its clever melding of mys-
tery and education, it would
be a worthwhile investment.
But the detailed 256-color
graphics, original musical
score, and digitized sounds
and voices make this a guar-
anteed winner. Throughout
each mystery, your child
views various scenes about
the town of Richview, with
most scenes featuring simple
animation effects. For exam-
ple, after a fire in the Case of
the Angry Arsonist, the interi-
or of Grime's Novelty Shop
drips water from the rafters; in
Swank's Hotel, your child can
watch a desk clerk fill out
forms and the lobby elevators
rise and fall. Digitized sound
effects include ringing
phones, a police-band radio,
and various voices.
Although Eagle Eye targets
the eight-and-older crowd, chil-
dren under ten may have a dif-
ficult time following the logic
of even the easiest cases.
This is because children
must select only the clues
that best prove who the cul-
prit is. Clues that don't direct-
ly point out the culprit, al-
though they may play an im-
portant part in solving the mys-
tery, cannot be selected
when the player is about to ac-
cuse a suspect. In the tough-
er cases, sorting through the
clues can be challenging
even for an adult. Younger
folks will require parental
help in order to work through
each mystery's logic-
Along with the software. Ea-
gle Eye includes an activity
book that contains dozens of
puzzles. These puzzles,
which feature cryptograms,
word searches, rebuses, cross-
word puzzles, and others, all
Involve Jake and Jennifer In an-
other mystery story. Moreo-
ver, the puzzles' solutions go
together to complete a final
puzzle that your child can sub-
mit as a contest entry The con-
test winner will have his or her
face featured In the next ver-
sion of Eagle Eye.
Also included with the pack-
age is Electronic Arts'
EA'Kids Theater, a graphical
menu system. When installed,
EA*Kids Theater enables chil-
dren to start Eagle Eye, to
view demonstrations of other
games In the EA*Kids series,
to get help, or to exit to DOS.
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add them to the EA'Kids The-
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cess to all games from a sin-
gle screen. The Theater also
allows you to create a boot
disk, select a Theater music
score, delete previews or pro-
grams, and specify your hard-
ware configuration.
If Eagle Eye is any indica-
tion, Electronic Arts is on its
way to putting together an im-
pressive collection of educa-
tional software for children. Ea-
gle Eye is as cleverly de-
signed (albeit aimed at a
younger age group) as Br0der-
bund's Carmen Sandlego se-
ries, and we can only hope
that, like the Carmen series.
Eagle Eye Mysteries will have
a long run of sequels. D
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Tackled by a steroid-punchy
linebacker, I teleported to safe-
ty in the mist-enshrouded
land of Zona, only to be blast-
ed out of the sky by a scream-
ing F-16. Christmas approach-
es — the time of year when I rip
through an onslaught of new
games on my eternal quest for
the best. Here are quick looks
at the latest releases that
have passed the Fun Test so
far this season.
Adventures. Return to Zork
brings Infocom'sclassicadven-
ture up-to-date in a new story
featuring digitized actors and
an hour of spoken dialogue.
SSI's Dungeon Hack is a 3-D
role-playing quest with a ran-
dom dungeon generator, ex-
tending replay value. Compan-
ions of Xanth takes place in
the fantasy universe of Piers An-
thony, whose books have
sold over 7 million copies. The
interface is easier to use than
in previous Legend Entertain-
ment games, even providing
an undo button. Also look for
Leisure Suit Larry VI from Sier-
ra for the raciest adult entertain-
ment (this may be a CD-ROM-
only release) and The Legend
of Kyrandia II. scheduled for
CD'ROfvl and floppy.
Simulations. Accolade put
a couple of titles into play in
time for Christmas. Keep an
eye out for Speed Racer.
Based on a popular Japanese
cartoon character, it's a fast-
paced motorcycle simulation
with an emphasis on arcade ac-
tion. But don't look lor the pre-
v'lously announced Mike Ditka
Football II- Ditka was apparent-
ly ditched, and Accolade's lat-
est football simulation, with a
fresh string of gridiron features
and effects, is called Savage
Sunday
Dynamix brings Sid and
Al's Incredible Toons, an an-
imated cartoon-style game
COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
based on the same concept
as The Incredible Machine. If
you've ever watched Wile E.
Coyote build one of those com-
plicated traps for the Roadrun-
ner, you'll get the idea behind
Toons, Graue Wolfe, the Dy-
namix sub simulation, has
been renamed Aces of the
Deep (turns out the original
name is also used by a terror-
ist group!) and rescheduled
for early 1994. EA's SSM/21
Seawolf, the sequel to 688 At-
tack Sub, should hit around
Thanksgiving, featuring full sup-
port for 16-bit General MIDI
sound. The more than 100 dig-
itized sounds are often used
strategically; you must learn to
distinguish sonar signatures of
whales and different types of
submarines, for instance.
Star Wars fans can find ex-
citement in two LucasArts ti-
tles. TIE Fighter is the Empire's
answer to X-Wing. It's a stand-
alone space combat simula-
tion in which you fight for the
Empire instead of the Rebel Al-
liance. LucasArts also has a
CD-ROM-only action game.
Rebel Assault, based on the
Star Wars story. (Besides IBM
CD-ROM, it's also available for
Sega CD and CD-I.) SimCity
2000, available for IBM and
Macintosh, is an entirely new
program, not just an upgrade.
Maxis delivers 3-D graphics, a
map you can rotate and zoom
in on, and countless new ele-
ments suggested by SimCity
enthusiasts, including sub-
ways, hospitals, and even a
functioning water system.
SimFarm is another hot simu-
lation from Maxis-
Edutainment. Best known
for gambling simulations, Villa
Crespo may soon be famous
for The Cookie Break Series,
high-quality software at budg-
et prices ($12.95). The first ti-
tles are Adventure Math and
Flags of Every Nation. Adven-
ture Math uses a very graphic
design to teach subtraction, di-
vision, multiplication, and ad-
dition. Flags of Every Nation is
a one-of-a-kind program with
illustrations of over 600 flags;
when one is displayed, you
can click on it to get details
about the flag's nation or its his-
torical significance. The pro-
gram includes a trivia game
that incorporates these facts.
Money savers. Besides
new games, look for great
deals on collections such as
Legend Entertainment's Spell-
casting Party Pak, with all
three of Steve Meretzky's
wacko adventures (a CD-
ROM version may follow the
floppy). Villa Crespo has a bun-
dle with some of its best gam-
bling games, including Jack's
Plus Video Poker. Mini-Black-
jack, and three more.
CD-ROMs. Sir-Tech has
two new CD-ROM collections
for the PC: The Wizardry Trilo-
gy, Part II contains Heart of
the Maelstrom, Bane of the Cos-
mic Forge, and Crusaders of
the Dark Savant. Another col-
lection offers these three, the
first four Wizardrys, and a his-
tory of Sir-Tech and the Wizard-
ry series. Adventurous
gamers should also check out
Origin's Ultima Underworld 1
& 2 CD-ROM collection. The
Coffee Break Series CD-ROM
Collection puts 21 of Villa Cre-
spo's games on one CD-ROM
for only $79. Villa Crespo also
has one of the most intriguing
new CD-ROM titles in Rose-
mary West's House of For-
tunes, which uses tarot cards,
astrology, and three other meth-
ods to tell your fortune.
Video games. Need some-
thing to keep the kids off your
computer so you can play a
real game? If you've got a Gen-
esis, try Mutant League Hock-
ey EA's comic-style Interpre-
tation of hockey that stars car-
toon characters in a hockey
game with no rules. Inspired
by the "Young Indiana Jones"
TV series, Westwood's Young
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this nonlinear fantasy world full of rich characters who
learn and change as you play
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BETRAYAL AT
KRONDOR
110
One of the dangers in embrac-
ing new technology iies not in
blindly forging ahead, but in
losing sight of what's being
left behind. In the booming
business of entertainment soft-
ware, where flash often rates
higher than substance, it's
easy to put presentation be-
fore gameplay — it's like build-
ing the perfect beast, yet ne-
glecting to give it a heart and
soul, That's why Betrayal at
Krondor is such an exciting ar-
rival: Its captivating story line
provides the game's heart;
the fantastic graphics and spe-
cial effects are extras. It's
amazing that this game, Dy-
namix's first attempt at fanta-
sy role-playing, towers above
the genre.
Betrayal's quality won't sur-
prise fans of veteran designer
John Cutter, best known for
his mid-1980s sports titles at
Gamestar and Cinemaware,
Cutter based Betrayal on the
popular Riftwar fantasy series
created by Raymond E. Feist.
The story picks up where
Feist's latest book. Darkness
at Sethanon, ends, it uses
many recurring characters
and locations from the series,
so those familiar with the se-
ries will immediately and com-
fortably fall into the action.
Newcomers can get into the
game by reading the brief syn-
opsis of this saga, although
tfie synopsis may not provide
all the information they need
to succeed in the game.
The setting for Betrayal is
the Kingdom of the Isles, a
vast fantasy world that's divid-
ed into several geographical
and political realms and is pop-
ulated not only by humans
but also by elves, dwarves,
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trolls, and many
other strange crea-
tures. Just below a large,
jagged mountain range,
Seigneur Locklear and his
young magician companion
are escorting an elf prisoner
named Gorath to the southern
city of Krondor, Gorath, a half-
breed traitor to the Moredhel
tribe, bears an urgent mes-
sage for the prince, one warn-
ing him of an assassination
plot. As the three tread quietly
through dangerous territory a
long way from home, Lock-
lear unshacl<les Gorath, realiz-
ing that in the event of an
attack, the elf's fierce fighting
ability far outweighs any
need for security. Thus be-
gins the story of this unlikely
trio of adventurers.
This complex, character-
rich story unfolds as a series
of nine individual chapters,
the plot advancing only upon
completion of specific goals
In each one. These mini-
quests vary in size, difficulty,
and clarity of mission. Seg-
menting the story this way
gives great range to the game-
play — it's as if you're getting
nine adventures in one.
This game differs from tra-
ditional role-playing games in
that there's no creation of in-
stant characters or an om-
nicsent power rolling dice to
determine a character's at-
tributes. Instead, you inherit
full-bodied characters with
unique personalities, rich
pasts, and hopefully prosper-
ous futures. Rather than con-
trol every fiber of their beings,
you merely make decisions —
their overall strength of char-
acter determines the results
of their actions. Likewise, the
outcome of your decisions
helps moid each character.
There's a subtle distinction be-
tween this and traditional char-
acter determination, but It's im-
portant enough to place Be-
trayal far beyond the average
hack-and-slash fantasy.
There's also an important
distinction between this
game and run-of-the-mill
graphic adventures, in which
you merely turn the page on
a set story board. Playing Be-
trayal is like participating in
the creation of a novel. Total-
ly nonlinear in design and
unconfined by time limits or
spatial boundaries, it can be
enjoyed in various ways:
straight through, for the less
adventuresome: or in a mean-
dering fashion, for dedicated
explorers who are compelled
to examine every nook and
cranny. No two games are ex-
actly alike, as each is influ-
enced by random events and
learned behavior.
There are plenty of other un-
usual aspects to Betrayal, in-
cluding an uncommon blend
of graphic modes. Wilderness
areas are rendered in tex-
tured 3-D polygons, the
same 3Space technology Dy-
namix employs in such flight
simulations as Red Baron and
Aces over Europe. Players
are free to roam this virtual fan-
tasy world— 224 million
square feet of trails, rivers,
mountains, lakes, islands,
and towns, not to mention con-
voluted sewers and aban-
doned mines. The three-
dimensional terrain rises and
falls as you move, with multi-
plane background scrolling
and ambient sound effects pro-
viding a remarkable illusion of
real time and space.
You can view wilderness
and underground travel from
an adjustable top-down per-
spective, helpful for both
quick passage through famil-
iar territory and a bird's-eye
scan of surrounding lands. In
tunnels, this option doubles
as an automapping device.
When speed is an impor-
tant consideration, you can
lock your party onto the path.
Of course, by sticking strictly
to the path or navigating from
a high angle, you can easily
miss some interesting or poten-
tially helpful objects because
they are outside your field of
vision. Likewise, locking onto
a path is an easy way to stum-
ble right into a trap.
Combat transpires with yet
another unusual strategic
point of view. Opposing char-
acters square off on a make-
shift battle grid: each is al-
lowed a preset number of
squares to move and strike.
You can fight this turn-based
battle by controlling individu-
al actions (advisable when
you're using magic, using spe-
cial weapons, or facing espe-
cially challenging opponents)
or by letting the computer
play it automatically (when
the outcome will clearly be in
your favor).
Combat features fully devel-
oped, digitized characters,
with more than 2500 frames
of rotoscoped animation and
crisp sampled sound effects.
Using magic or modified weap-
onry also triggers special visu-
al effects.
Static artwork (transitional
scenes of castles, for exam-
ple) features beautifully
scanned 256-coior paintings.
The lush character interface
is also thoughtfully styled,
with well-designed treatment
of standard role-playing me-
chanics such as a drag-and-
drop inventory system. Four
levels ot graphic detail help
keep wilderness movement flu-
id and realistic (although by
their nature, polygon-based
graphics animate well at even
minimum system require-
ments). Other graphic high-
lights include the texture-
mapped tunnels and magic
temple portals, v^hich you can
use to zap your party over
great distances.
Weaknesses include an
overreliance on digitized, col-
or-enhanced photos to repre-
sent every character in the
game. It's unclear whether
these are pictures of hired ac-
tors or merely snapshots from
a Dynamix office party. It's an
attempt to create atmos-
phere, but the glued-on
beards and plastic elf ears on-
ly threaten the game's overall
impression of grandeur. Also,
the game suffers in some ar-
eas from the blockiness asso-
ciated with 320 X 200 low-res-
olution VGA.
One final, minor complaint:
Those who are unacquainted
with Feist's complex fantasy
world — face it; this is strictly a
niche market — ^will have some
trouble following the flood of
characters, race names, and
locations. The story s political
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and social history alone
weaves a tapestry so rich
that many will find it difficult to
understand. References to ob-
scure names and events, ob-
viously important to the story's
development, will often pass
by unrecognized. The other-
wise excellent manual helps,
but Feist s prose is so thick
with atmosphere and imagina-
tion that jumping headfirst in-
to the fray can be quite over-
whelming.
But after you understand
the background, you can real-
ly appreciate this game,
faired by literary passion and
uncommon intelligence, Be-
trayal at Krondor approaches
a new level of realism and en-
joyment for computer fantasy
role-playing games. H
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This is not your father's "Game-
Play" column. Starting with
this issue, "GamePlay" will be
the spot where you can find
hands-on looks at the newest
games for your PC.
Until recently I was editor of
COMPUTE'S special Amiga
section. When the Amiga edi-
tion shut down , my bosses no-
ticed that I played games on
nearly every electronic plat-
form out there (I'd be a gour-
met chef if they'd invent a
flight simulator I could play on
my microwave oven) and de-
cided to make me entertain-
ment editor. My mission with
this column is to snoop out
prerelease copies (called be-
tas in the industry) of new
games so that you can find
out what's new and hot at
your local software emporium.
The games I'm seeing a oou-
112
pie of months before they're re-
leased will often have just
reached the shelves of your
dealer by the time you see
this column.
Waving the checkered flag.
One of the hottest games for
the holidays is sure to be Indy-
Car Racing, designed by Pa-
pyrus and distributed by Vir-
gin Games. Papyrus designed
the 1989 Electronic Arts hit In-
dianapolis 500: The Simula-
tion, and if you liked that
game, you'll love this one.
COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
You'll drive 800-horsepower
IndyCars around tracks rang-
ing from the oval at Michigan
International Speedway to the
corkscrew curves at Laguna
Seca.
You can just hop in the car
and start driving, or you can
stop by the garage first and ad-
just your car's handling char-
acteristics by changing the sus-
pension stiffness, wing an-
gles, gearing, tire hardness
and pressure, camber, and
more. There's even a dyno
room where you can custom-
tune your car's engine.
From there it's off to 1 of 12
tracks to qualify and race.
When you first hop in the cock-
pit, you'll likely get run over by
the other drivers because
you'll be sitting there gawking
at the amazing scenery. Al-
though IndyCar Racing uses
flight simulator-style polygon
graphics. Papyrus texture-
maps the objects with realistic
bitmaps. The track is replete
with skid marks and grooves,
and the cars are covered with
authentic sponsor stickers.
You'll find yourself slowing
down on the curves just to
read the advertising bill-
boards! When you scrape the
walls or wreck, realistic
smoke whiffs from your car. I
recognized buildings that I'd
driven past in real life when I
was driving the Long Beach
Grand Prix course — IndyCar
Racing has some of the best-
looking, most realistic graph-
ics in PC-game history. When
watching replays of your
race, complete with camera
cuts, you'll feel like you're
watching the race live on TV.
Driving is a blast with a joys-
tick, but !t's especially fun
with CH Products' yoke control-
ler. There are varying realism
levels: On the easy levels you
can pretty much just worry
about steering and braking,
but with realism active, you'll
find that rain, wind, and tem-
peratures all affect car han-
dling. There's more here than
I have room to talk about, but
suffice it to say that this is the
game to come home and play
after a frustrating afternoon in
stop-and-go traffic.
Golden oldie. If you were
around for the birth of the per-
sonal computer industry, you
may remember the incredible
batch of games that Electron-
ic Arts entered the market
with. These classics, such as
M.U.L.E., Pinball Construction
Set, Archon, and Seven Cities
of Gold, may not have been as
sophisticated as today's PC
games, but they were eminent-
ly playable and good for
months of fun.
Now two of those classics
have been updated for to-
day's PCs. Archon is coming
soon from SSl, promising
SVGA graphics and new play
options, EA has taken a more
preservationist approach with
its Seven Cities of Gold Com-
merative Edition for the PC.
The game now brandishes en-
hanced sepia-toned VGA
graphics and smoother game-
play {you no longer kill natives
just by bumping into them),
but otherwise, it remains faith-
ful to Dani Bunten's Commo-
dore 64/Atari 800 classic.
You're a fifteenth-century
Spanish explorer out to con-
quer the New World. You ex-
plore territory in search of
gold and New World goods,
which you can take back to Eu-
rope and use to bring back an
even larger and more power-
ful expedition. You can trade
with the natives or conquer
them— it's up to you. But if you
take the violent approach,
word will spread, and your ex-
plorations may become in-
creasingly bloody. Once
you've conquered the Ameri-
cas, Seven Cities can gener-
ate new, random worlds for
you to explore. The game is
simple to learn and play, and
it's great fun. Kudos to EA for
bringing back a classic. □
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Look for major
changes in Gazette, starting
with the next issue.
Tom Netsel
This issue marks a turn-
ing point in the history of
Gazette. This is the last
issue that will be printed
on paper. Next month, Ga-
zette moves entirely to disk.
While the shift from ink to
pixels means a new format
for Gazette, its content will re-
flect little change. The col-
.umns and features that
you've come to expect in
the magazine will now be on
disk. Jim Butterfield, Fred
D'lgnazio, Larry Cotton, and
Steve Vander Ark will contin-
ue to share their ideas, com-
ments, and expertise in
their usual columns.
Look for feature articles, re-
views of software and hard-
ware, and "Feedback," too.
All the text that was in the
magazine w\l\ be on the new
double-sided Gazette Disk.
You'll be able to read these
articles onscreen or send
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DECEMBER 1993 COMPUTE G-1
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Voiumn 1 , Issue 1
33ie64@<i
WRITTEN BY
HAROLD STEVENS JR.
People are always
amazed when I tell them
about the things that my
Commodore 64 can do.
They are usually blown
away when I tell them
how i use the 8-bit com-
puter in a professional
environment as part of
my job as a journalist.
I edit a suburban
weekly newspaper m
Columbus, Ohio, f^y 64
played a major role in
helping me redesign
and create a whole new
set of graphic devices
that we in the newspa-
per industry call stand-
ing headlines — or
standing heds for
short. Standing
heds are the
visual elements
that identify
special areas of
newspaper
copy, such as
personal opinion
columns, letters to the
editor, community news
and events, obituaries,
weddings and engage-
ments notices, and
business news.
My 64 was the
answer to a problem
we had a few years
ago when we decided
to streamline our stand-
ing heds. Our main-
frame typesetting com-
puter, a Ccmpugraphic
MCS-100, was unable
to do so without our
having to shell out hun-
dreds of dollars for
software to help us get
what we wanted.
We were looking for
ways to spice up
the standing
heds of our
newspapers in
a way that
would set us
apart from our
/ competition in
the Colum-
w
by Harold Stevms, u,.
bus area, We wanted
something to indicate
that the five editions of
the Columbus
Messenger Newspa-
pers were on the move
and were progressive
enough to take advan-
tage of contemporary
newspaper design, while
being cost effective at
the same time. Like
many small businesses,
we don't have a whole
lot of money to spend in
our pursuit of innovation
unless it returns a profit.
A New Look
We wanted to create
new and radically
designed standing heds
that would be stream-
lined and would utilize a
dot-screen background
with white, or reverse,
lettering. Since we were
unable to do this with
theCompugraphic
MCS-100 without the
expensive special soft-
ware, we thought we
would try to create these
headlines with the
equipment we already
had. We tried printing
them in black with white,
or reverse, type facings
and then shooting them
with a gray screen on
the PMT camera in our
production department.
This didn't work. The
results were muddy, and
we didn't get the nice
clean copy that we
wanted.
My publisher was
toying with the idea of
buying the software for
the Ccmpugraphic
when I hit upon the idea
of using my 64 to do the
task. If it worked, it
would cost us nothing.
About that time, our
company bought an
Apple LaserWriter !l-
NTX laser printer for use
by our classified adver-
tising department to go
with its new IBM clone.
That computer was pur-
chased to print our clas-
sified ads and to t<eep
accounting records for
that department.
Since the PC didn't
have any desktop pub-
lishing software with it
and the LaserWriter was
a PostScript-driven
printer, I was sure I
couid publish what we
December 1993
egto^lh'cgg
needed on the printer
with the 64 and
PostScript-compatible
geoPublish. i volun-
teered to do a couple of
samples to see how
they would fly.
stores that I could pur-
chase an interface to
hook up the faser printer
to my modem port for
about $100. "No
thanks," I said. That's
when I turned to the
GEOS to the Res<ue
The first thing I did was
to go home to boot up
GEOS. I created sam-
ples of the standing
heds with geoPuoiish
and printed out a rough
draft of what these spe-
cial graphics would look
like on my Star NX-
1000C dot-matrix print-
er. This was enough
proof to management
that my 64 could do the
work. I was asked to
start working on the
standing heds as soon
as possible. All that I
required now was an
RS-232 interface to con-
nect to the printer.
Finding such an
interface in the
Columbus area was
almost impossible, and
the ones I located were
expensive. I was told by
a couple of computer
Tenex catalog for help.
What I did find was
an Aprotek Universal
RS-232 Expansion
Interface for about $40.
Immediately I ordered
the interface and
received it a couple of
weeks later. The
Aprotek interface was
exactly what I was look-
ing for. It's designed so
I can connect between
a printer with an RS-232
port and a Commodore-
style modem.
The second thing I
bought was a six-foot
RS-232 extension cord
from Radio Shack. This
let me set up my com-
puter near the newspa-
per's laser printer.
Irial Run
On the following day, I
hauled my computer and
peripherals to work and
set up shop not too far
from the laser printer.
When I hooked up my
spare amber monitor,
geoRAfvl, expansion unit,
and 1541 and 1581 disk
drives to the computer, I
was ready to go. All t
had to do now was plug
in the interface to the
64's user port and run
the RS-232 cable
between it and the laser
printer. I then booted
GEOS to print the sam-
ples that I had created
earlier and printed on my
9-pin dot-matrix printer,
Once in GEOS, I
moved the cursor to the
geoPublaser icon and
double-clicked it. The
screen went blank, and
a menu then dropped
down on the screen
asking me to choose
the RS-232 serial trans-
fer rate of either 9600
bps or 1200 bps to print
the geoPublish files.
Since I knew 9600 was
eight times faster than
1200, I naturally clicked
on it. Now I was becom-
ing excited. I was tak-
ing the first steps
toward using my
Commodore for what I
really wanted it to do-
desktop publishing.
After setting the bps
rate, the file dialog menu
dropped down for me to
select the file that I want-
ed to print. I moved the
pointer to the name of
the standing heds sam-
ple that I had previously
created and clicked it to
open the file. Next came
the print option menu
asking me the number of
pages and copies that I
wanted to print and
which smoothing setting
to use for the graphics.
Since nothing needed to
be changed, I clicked
and sent the file to the
primer.
I held my breath as
the monitor went blank
and the print indicator
light on the LaserWriter
started blinking. A few
minutes later the file
dialog menu reap-
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These are the before and after illustrations of what the standing headlines looked like
then and now. Before we changed the standing headlines using the Commodore 64C
and geoPublish. they were just boxes with rounded corners with the type centered
inside the boxes. The top left standing bed was how our boxes were before we
changed to the current appearance of the one on the top right . As you can see the
newer headlines created on the Commodore look more streamlined in the new format
when we changed from the round boxes to the screened bars.
peared, and the laser printer started
whirring. Out came a printed page. I
was excited as I picked up the first
print-quality document created by my
very own 64. At last, my dream of
being able to print professional-quality
documents on it had come true.
When my wife gave me the 64 for
Christmas in 1987, never did 1 think
that I would be able to do profession-
al-quality desktop publishing on it.
She had purchased the computer for
me to use as a word processor. 1
would write stories on it and then store
them to floppy disks to eliminate the
piles of paper that accumulated
around my old electric typewriter.
Dreams to Reality
When I discovered geoPublish, I
learned that I could publish profes-
sional-quality printed documents on a
PostScript laser printer. All I needed
was access to such a printer Buying
one was out of the question because I
didn't have the money to pay for one
on my salary as a weekly newspaper
editor. All I could do was to dream
that someday i would be able to print
professional-looking documents on
my 8-bit Commodore. Once the laser
samples were printed, the dream had
become a reality,
Once we saw the samples, we
started refining the standing heds. We
had a few technical problems to work
out. First, we had to decide the best
percentage that the dot screen for the
G-4 COl^PUTE DECEMBER 1M3
bars and boxes should be. Since 50
percent and above printed too dark,
we settled on a 25-perc8nt screen.
We had to make the dot screen as
light as possible to keep the printing
process from blotting out the white
type facing and muddling the dot
screen. Ink has a tendency to bleed
into the fibers of newsprint paper.
I began to play around with the
design of the type facing so that we
could produce white lettering with
black shadows behind it. We felt that
the shadow effect would allow the
white type to stand out more clearly
against the 25-percent dot screen
background. Then I put the type in
italic style to give it the feeling of
being in a forward motion. Once this
was done, I printed new samples and
showed them to the publisher and
managing editor. We all agreed that
this was how it was to be done,
I then sent out a memo to the other
editors on the staff asking them to list
the names of all the columns and fea-
tures that appeared in their respective
newspapers. Since all five of us share
common standing heds for local
events, military news, school news,
and so on, we created these first.
Next came the standing heds that
were customized for each individually
zoned paper. For example, I run
columns submitted by the high
schools in my area while another edi-
tor runs a feature on saving money
with coupons, and a third editor has a
poetry column.
Days at the Keyboard
For the next few days, inciuding the
weekend, most of my spare time was
spent creating headlines in various
sizes to fit in the editorial copy section
of the paper. First, I set the headlines
to go across the entire width of the
newspaper page. An 11-x17-inch
page consists of eight columns that
are each 7 picas (1.25 inches) wide.
This meant that the heds had to be 63
picas or about 10.5 inches long, which
is the length of a geoPublish page.
The headline bars had to be one-
half inch tall with the type set in 24-
point GEOS font LW Cal, This type
style is also known as Helvetica to the
rest of the printing industry. The text
was also set up at one-eighth inch
from the left edge of the screen bars.
Previously, the standing hed bars
were one-inch boxes with rounded
corners and type set in upright
Helvetica of 30 points.
jt's my
turn...
*^ ^ by Harold Steven s, Jr.
by Harold Steirens, Jr.
Using my personal opinion column as an example, you can see how we improved the
looks of our editorial page by going from a rounded corner box to a screened one.
Also, changing the type style to italics with white lettering and "shadows" makes the
standing hed appear more exciting than before.
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To determine what kind of screened background we wanted for the standing head-
lines. I tried white type against different percentages of the screen. On top is 90 per-
cent screen, followed by 85 percent, then 75 percent. 50 percent and finally 25 per-
cent, which was what we settled on. We decided to add the "shadows' to highlight
the white type facing to give it a more fuller look.
I created these standing tieds so
that they could be trimmed down to six,
five, four, three, and two columns in
width. For the personal opinion
columns, such as those written by the
editors to appear on the opinion-editor-
ial page, I created screened boxes that
were three quarters of an inch tall and
two columns wide with the name of the
column in 18- or 24-point size and the
author's name in 15 points. The only
difference between these standing
heds and the others was that the
author's name was set in black type.
The personal opinion columns
weren't the only items set in the two-
column screened boxes. There were
some standing heds whose words
were too long to fit into the half-inch
by two-column format. For these
headlines I had to create a two-col-
umn by three-quarter-inch screened
box and place the names of the fea-
ture in two lines of type, with the
words printed in 18-point type.
Creating these thicker two-column
headlines also gave us a variety of
designs to choose from when we laid
out the pages.
After creating the screen bars, I
placed the black type, which was to
become the shadow of the words,
about one-eighth of an inch from the
top and left edge. Setting the white
type over the black one-eighth of an
G-6 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
inch from the top and left edge of the
half-inch screened bars in opaque
nnode produced the shadow effect that
I wanted. In the tv/o-column boxes, I
placed the shadows and white type
the same distance from the top and
left edge. Both the shadows and over-
laying white type were set in italics.
After I corrected small placement
errors and ran out the headlines on the
laser printer, we had them, shot on the
PMT camera. This converted them to
photographic paper and made them
more durable so that they could be
reused every week. Shooting the
headlines on photo paper also sharp-
ened the resolution of the dot screen,
the white letters, and the black shad-
ows. The final results looked as though
we had used the Compugraphic type-
setter to create thenn. This process
took the 300-dots-per-inch resolution
of the laser printer and enhanced it to
make the heds appear as if they were
600 dpi or greater.
Stort the Presses
Production day rolled around. The
standing heds were shot on paper and
waxed to be pasted onto the page with
the stories, photographs, and other
copy. The pasted-up pages were then
shipped to the printer. Two days later,
our sample copies of the papers came
back. We turned to the pages that had
the standing heds, and they looked
great. To tell you the truth, looking at
the resolution on the newsprint page,
we couldn't tell the difference between
them and anything phnted by the type-
setting machine.
Later, I purchased a second com-
puter and a 1581 drive to keep at
work so that I wouldn't have to lug my
64 back and forth when it was need-
ed. I also added an amber monitor for
better onscreen resolution.
The 64 with a 1764 RAM Expansion
Unit and a second 1581 sits on a desk
of its own in the office. Since I
installed the computer and created
the standing heds, I have used this
system to create other graphics to be
used with stories in our newspaper. I
am most proud of the one created
during the Persian Gulf War that signi-
fied stories about local people who
supported the troops overseas.
As an added bonus, I was able to
use the system at work to publish an
eight-page newsletter for my user
group, the Central Ohio Commodore
Users Group. For three years now I've
been able to use my 64 in a profes-
sional manner. The icing on the cake
came the following year when the
company gave me a nice pay raise for
doing the impossible on the 64. □
Going for broke
Above are samples of other graphics
and art work that was produced on the
Commodore 64C using geoPublish.
The bottom graphic was used as line
art to draw peoples's attention to a
story on a school districf's financial
woes, while the one on the top was
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WRATH OF THE DEMON
Are you bored with the games that are
available for the Commodore? Do you
get discouraged by programs that
promise a lot but deliver little'? Do you
think you'll have to upgrade to a PC in
order to get full screen graphics and
true multilevel action? Then Wrath of
the Demon by ReadySoft has some de-
lightful surprises in store for you.
The creative wizards of the Abstrax
research team have come up with a
phenomenal program in Wrath of the
Demon. This game offers the scope,
graphics, multilevel scrolling, and
sound track that previousiy had been
available only to PC owners.
The game itseif is a challenging
quest that pits a demon and his host of
minions against our hero, an unassum-
ing stranger who happens to be in the
vi'rong place at the right time, The he-
ro (you) is entrusted with the mission of
finding and saving the princess and rid-
ding the kingdom of the evil demon. If
he succeeds, the king has promised
the hand of the princess. If he fails; all
is lost.
The game opens with an impressive
musical score. It's just one of nine mu-
sical selections you'll hear throughout
the game. The title graphic tells the sto-
ry. It shows a bullish demon holding a
sphere with the lovely princess impris-
oned inside. Off to one side, our hand-
some Conan-like hero rushes to the res-
cue, brandishing his sword.
Sure, a lot of games have impres-
sive title graphics, but then the games
don't live up to the promise. The graph-
ics in those games end up being either
too small or uninspiring. You know the
kind I mean — the ones where a charac-
ter who looks like a minuscule stick
man moves along the bottom inch of
the screen and the rest of the screen
is a solid blue that I can only assume
is supposed to represent the sky. If
that's what you've been seeing, you ar-
en't going to believe your eyes when
you load Wrath of the Demon!
The Abstrax team originally de-
signed Wrath of the Demon to take ad-
vantage of the sophisticated hardware
in the Amiga computer system. When
they converted the program for the
Commodore, they were determined to
push that hardware to its limits. They
G-a COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
succeeded admirably. The game has
over 600 screens of action; smooth,
high-tech parallax scrolling; and richly
detailed graphics that utilize more
than 100 colors.
The animation is superb. There are
over 1400 frames in the game. The
frames scroll smoothly across the
screen without jumpiness or distortion.
For example, the opening level fea-
The animation in Wrath of the Demon is
superb, with mors than 1400 frames.
tures our hero riding a galloping white
charger. The mountains, shrubs, and
clouds scroll by flawlessly. In addition,
there are rocks to be hurdled, skele-
tons to be avoided, and small bottles
(potions) to be collected for later use.
The characters have a wide range
of movement. They jump, walk, roll,
duck, and fight. In the opening scene,
the hero must lean down from his sad-
dle and scoop up items while his
steed thunders forward at fuli speed.
He must also hurdle rocks and other
obstacles that get in his way. In fact,
the horse will balk rather comically and
refuse to go further if the hero doesn't
guide him over an obstacle.
Meanwhile, the hero also has to
watch what he is scooping up. Small
bottles represent potions, but skulls,
rocks, and other items will drain the he-
ro's energy if he touches them. Don't
be fooled into thinking it would be eas-
ier to just gallop forward without attempt-
ing to gather objects. He'll need the po-
tions later if he hopes to have success
against the various monsters he'll
meet along the way.
The game's monsters are large, intel-
ligent, and deadly — 120 different vari-
eties in all. Low-flying birds try to
knock you from your horse. Gnomelike
creatures attack you with pickaxes and
throw rocks at you. (Their aim is dead-
ly.) Dragons breathe fire at you. As for
the demon himself, well, suffice it to
say he is an awesome creature more
than half a screen tall.
In order to defeat the monsters,
you'll have to develop a different strat-
egy for dealing with each one. Whatev-
er approach you adopt, try to keep
your hero as far away from the mon-
sters as possible. Never let them back
him into a corner. In fact, sometimes,
it's better to try to avoid a monster rath-
er than attack it. However, killing the
monsters has some advantages — some-
times they carry potions that your hero
can collect for later use.
The three potions that are most help-
ful are Shield potions. Zap potions, and
Heal potions. The Shield potion makes
the hero immortal, but only for three sec-
onds. Zap potions will kill the monsters
around the hero or at least take away
some of their power. Because of their
constitution, some monsters have
some immunity to the Zap potion. It's in-
teresting trying to figure out which mon-
sters are which.
The Healing potion is the most help-
ful. It will cure all your hero's wounds
and restore his energy to the maxi-
mum. He'll need it. There are more mon-
sters waiting on the next level.
Onscreen graphics help you keep
track of the hero's energy level and the
number and type of potions he has re-
maining. Unfortunately there is no indi-
cator for the monsters' strength, so
you're never sure how close to death
they are. You'll have to keep hitting,
jumping, running, and punching until
you defeat them. This is made more diffi-
cult by the fact that the monsters sel-
dom attack alone. Sometimes your he-
ro will be outnumbered two or three to
one. So use those potions carefully!
The game will really put your joystick
skills to the test.
You'll need more than just dexterity
to master this one. The exploration lev-
els of the game will take the hero
through murky caves, pagan temples,
and elaborate castles. You'll need to
make good maps of some of these lev-
els, or you'll never get our hero out of
the labyrinth of passages.
The game isn't perfect; there are
some flaws in it. One is the lack of a fea-
ture to save your game or position.
This feature is available for other sys-
terns but not for the Commodore ver-
sion. Another drawback is the manual.
It's sketchy at best and was written to
encompass ail versions of the gan-e.
The manual tells you'more of what the
Commodore version can't do than
what it can.
The biggest drawback I found was
the loading time both to start the
game and between scenes. Even us-
ing my Epyx FastLoad cartridge, the
loading time ran anywhere from 30' sec-
onds to a minute. At the rate I was dy-
ing and having to restart the game, I
wished it would reload faster,
However, I have never seen a Com-
modore game that has offered such su-
perb graphics, intricate plotting, and
fast action. It shows what the 64 can
do with the right programming. Let's
hope more such games are headed
our way.
MARTI PAULIN
ReadySolt
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FEEDBACK
Questions and
answers
about l^rboDOS,
Commoifore's
support for the 64,
and more
Bug-Swatter
TurboDOS {June 1993)
doesn't work on 1541-11
drives. Author Hong Pham of-
fers the foliowing suggestion
to fix the problem. First, load
and run TurboDOS^ Then af-
ter the startup message ap-
pears, enter the following line
in immediate mode.
POKE 4508, 234: POKE 45D9, 234:
POKE 4510, 234
To save this modified version
of the program, type BSAVE
"TURBODOS.MOD". 8.2049,
10493.
In Scarce Supply
What's the word on the 64?
Does Commodore still sup-
port it or not?
RAYMOND MAY
PALATKA, FL
Commodore still supports ttie
64 in Europe, but not in tlie
U.S., according to Fred
Bowen. a senior engineer at
Commodore. The company
fias entered into an agree-
ment with Software Hut (800-
932-6442) to sell new and re-
furbished 64s, drives, and oili-
er equipment, and The Soft-
ware Management Group
(4 10.992-9975) will offer post-
sale support to Commodore re-
sellers, various dealers, and
end users. Service centers
will work with SMG for all war-
ranty-related activities. SMG
has its headquarters in Colum-
bia, Maryland, but plans to
open offices in West Chester
Pennsylvania, and Memphis.
Tennessee.
Appending Programs
I have a couple of financial
programs that I have created
over the years that I would
like to combine into one larg-
er program. I'd like to use a
menu subroutine to run which-
ever program I desire. A cou-
ple of these programs are fair-
ly long, and I'd rather not
G-10 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
have to type them in again.
Isn't there some way I can
merge these without having
to retype them?
DARRELL HUNLEY
WACO, TX
The easiest way to combine
several programs Is to ap-
pend one to the other This
means that you'll have to
change the line numbers of
the second program so that
its lowest number Is higher
than the highest number of
the first program. This simply
means that the programs
with high line numbers are
tacked onto the end of pro-
grams with low line numbers.
If the line numbers overlap,
you'll have a problem.
The easiest way to append
programs is to load the first
program and then in direct
mode type POKE 43, PEEK
(45)-2: POKE 44, PEEK (46)
and press Return. Then load
the second program and
/ypePOKE43, 1: POKE 44. 8
and press Return.
List the program, and you
should see that the second
program has been appended
to the first. Save this new pro-
gram, if you wish to append
another repeat the process.
If PEEK(45) should happen
to be a or 1, you'll get an er-
ror massage. If this happens,
you have to change your in-
structions by typing POKE 43,
PEEK(45)-f256-2: POKE 44,
PEEK(46)-1 and then continu-
ing as before.
Merging two programs into
a single program with lines
sorted correctly requires some-
thing else. This is different
from appending one program
onto another You might have
a subroutine that you've writ-
ten, and you'd like to enter it
without having to rewrite it.
You can use the following pro-
gram to merge two programs.
Just make sure that neither
program contains the same
line number as the other
SC 59000
AQ 5"}013
DK 59020
MJ 60000
GM 60010
AP 6CI(!2B
PS $3030
XO 60040
BF 60053
FOR J'ABSee TO
POKEJ,PEEK|J) :N
POKC42231 ,56:PO
B,96rPOKE42535
FOR J=830 TO 90
V:POKEJ,V:NEXT
DATA 162,8,32,1
,32,207,255,32,
5,165
RATA 1,41,254,1
60,0,32,207,255
7
DATA 255,240,32
7,255,133,20,32
55,133
DATA 21,32,207
3,0,2,240,3,20
45
DATA 152,24,105
, 32,162,164,76,
65
DATA 1,9,1,133,
9,166,76,128,16
49151:
EXT
KE4223
96
0:FEAD
98,255
207,25
33,1, 1
32, 2e
32,20
207,2
255,15
,208,2
,5,168
79,3, 1
1,32,8
4
To use this merge routine,
load It, run it. and then type
NEW. Be patient; it will take al-
most a minute after you type
RUN before the computer will
be ready again.
Then type in or load a BA-
SIC program. Merge addition-
al programs on disk by typing
OPEN 8, 8, 8, "FILENAME":
SYS 830, Filename is whatev-
er program you have on disk
that you want merged with
the one already in memory.
Be sure to save the newly
merged program. You can
turn off the blinking light on
the disk drive by typing
OPEN 15,8,15, "I": CLOSE 15.
Author Information
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sell any more disk products?
I notice that you have a few dif-
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If you have public domain
programs on your disk but
don't pay the authors, then
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[io you still want them?
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FEEDBACK
Information
about autliors,
possible
public domain
ripoffs, a
directory lister, and
SpeedCalc
G-12
Gazette forwards mail to its au-
tliors whenever a reader
writes with a questior^ about a
program that our staff cannot
answer We also forward any
mail that's sent to an author in
care of the magazine. We in-
clude biographical informa-
tion whenever an author sup-
plies it, but it's not required.
(As a matter of fact, you
didn't include your city or prov-
ince in your letter, but we iden-
tified the country from the
stamp on the envelope.)
Like many other compa-
nies that offer Commodore
products, we too have no-
ticed sluggish sales. That Is
one reason that there are no
plans to update the Gazette In-
dex. The Index was a cumula-
tive one, however That is, we
updated it each year, adding
on to the previous contents.
The Index includes programs
and articles from 1991 back
to 1983. At this time, there are
no plans to update it again.
While SpeedScript Itself
hasn't changed since its last
disk, we have published a
number of enhancement pro-
grams. We have thought of of-
fering a disk of those prod-
ucts. We have also thought of
offering a two-disk set of Lar-
ry Cotton's "Beginner BASIC"
columns and programs. At
this time, we doubt if there is
enough interest in these prod-
ucts to make them economical-
ly feasible. If we 're wrong, we
welcome your comments.
If you've read Tom NetseTs
comments in this issue's "64/
128 View, " you know that
there are major changes com-
ing to Gazette. The decision
to go to an all-disk product
means several benefits to our
readers. Since you no longer
have to type in our programs,
we don't have the same limits
on program size. We also
won't have the 16-page restric-
tion that we've had in print.
We can now offer more pro-
grams as well as larger ones.
COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
Steve Vander Ark has
found some very good public
domain and shareware pro-
grams for our disk. We plan
to continue with his "PD
Picks. " As for ripping off
those authors, we do our
best to contact them before
publication. We offer a con-
tract that grants us the one-
time use of their programs,
and we also pay an honorari-
um for that use. Whenever we
include a shareware program,
we hope that you'll do your
part by sending the authors a
few dollars for the programs
that you find useful.
While we still receive a
large number of program sub-
missions, we get almost no
graphics these days. We can
only assume the number of ac-
tive Commodore artists has de-
clined. Also, smce we re-
ceived no feedback about
our dropping "Gazette Gal-
lery" from the disk, we as-
sumed that you readers
didn 't miss that feature either.
Directory Lister
Here is a directory lister for
the 64 that I use all the time in
my programs, and I find it
quite helpful. Other readers
who program may find it use-
ful as well. This program will
read the directory of drive 8,
9. or whichever one you spec-
ify without interrupting or los-
ing the program that current-
ly is in memory,
10 PRINTCHRS(147):
INPUT"DRIVE 8 OR 9";DN
20 PRINTCHR$(147):
PRINnAB(6)"01SK
DIRECTORY":DN
30 SyS57812"$",DN: POKE 43,1:
P0KE44, 192: P0KE768, 174:
POKE 769, 167: SYS47003,1
40POKE782,192: SYS65493:
SYS42291:LIST:P0KE44,
8: POKE 768, 139: POKE 769,
227
50 PRIMT: PRINnAB(6)" HIT ANY
KEY"
60GETA$: IF AS="" THEN 60
70 RETURN
Renumber the routine to fit
anywhere within your pro-
gram, and be aware that line
70 will need a GOSUB in or-
der to work properly.
DAVE VVASENDORF
DENVER. CO
Where's SpeedCalc?
1 the June issue there's a no-
tice about a bonus template
for use with SpeedCalc for
tracking stock holdings. Be-
fore I ordered the disk, I check-
ed to see if I had SpeedCalc.
When I couldn't find it, ( boot-
ed the Gazette Index to see
when the program was pub-
lished, I didn't find any men-
tion of it, ] could use this tem-
plate if I had SpeedCalc.
When was it published?
RAY MUSICK
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
The reason you couldn 't find
SpeedCalc on the Gazette In-
dex disk is because Speed-
Calc was never published in
Gazette. It appeared in the
January 1986 edition of COM-
PUTE. (Remember the good
old days when COMPUTE pub-
lished type-in programs for
the Commodore, Apple, IBM,
and Atari?) It was also availa-
ble on disk.
A few years later, we is-
sued the Gazette Productivity
Manager disk ($14.95). In ad-
dition to a financial planner,
and data base, this disk con-
tained GemCalc. a spread-
sheet based on Speedcalc
but much larger and power-
ful. Files and templates for
these two programs are com-
patible, however If you don 't
already have a spreadsheet,
you might want to consider
GemCalc. It's a great buy,
and the disk is still available.
Since SpeedCalc was nev-
er published in Gazette, may-
be it's time to correct that over-
sight. Look for it in an upcom-
ing issue of Gazette. n
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Rebellion V2.
Q-Link filename: REBELLION
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GEnie file number: 12546.
This game bears a passing
resemblance to Risk, the
board game in which you try
to conquer the world using lit-
tle colored markers for armies.
You are given a random map
made up of hexagonal territo-
ries w/hich come with villages
and a contingent of soldiers loy-
al to the king. Of course, as
you might guess from the
name of the program, you ar-
en't loyal to the king at all In
fact, your goal is to wipe out
the royal troops entirely and
proclaim yourself king.
The game consists of your
maneuvering your armies, chal-
lenging neighboring territo-
ries, and trying to hoist your
own flag over the territorities.
In the process, you can hire
more soldiers and build tow-
ers and villages to extend
your influence.
That by itself would make
for a pretty neat game. But Re-
bellion also offers tidbits of col-
or and style that make all this
DECEMBER 1993
simulated mayhem a lot of fun.
Every time there's a battle, for
example, a window appears
showing two or more littie
guys armed with swords who
proceed to duke it out. This ac-
tion is accompanied by
thunks and clangs and martial
music. There are no blood or
explosions (this is a strategy
game, remember?), and you re-
ally can't do anything to help
your side win. But these kinds
of frills add a lot to the overall
enjoyment of Rebellion,
There are other nifty touch-
es. You can customize the
game extensively at the start.
You can edii the map and se-
lect your own color and coat
of arms, and they then appear
on your battle flags and in
your conquered terntories,
You can permit random
events to occur, such as fire de-
stroying one of your villages or
your troops capturing some out-
laws and gaining some extra
gold. You can also (and I
need options like this) make
the king's men into real wimps
or give the king extra advan-
tages such as a brother to
charge to his rescue. Rebel-
lion will suit just about any
kind of challenge you want to
set up, and it'll keep you busy
a long, long time,
If you do happen to tire of
treachery and bloodshed, you
might want to load the other
program for this month, a won-
derful re-creation of an an-
cient but still popular game.
Mah-Jongg by Kurt Tappe.
Q-Link filename: IVIAH.
JONGG V2.SDA. Uploaded
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ber: 7584. CompuServe file-
name: t\4AHJ0N.BIN. Contrib-
uted by user #73040,504.
According to the nice bit of
historical background KurtTap-
pe has included with this
game, people have been ad-
dicted to mah-jongg for thou-
sands of years. Now in the com-
puter age, the deceptively sim-
ple game is still keeping peo-
ple like me from getting any
work done. This version, for
the 128 in 40-column mode, is
a masterpiece.
In case you're not familiar
with the original board game,
here's a brief idea of what it's
like. You are presented with a
number of little tiles with pic-
tures on them, stacked up in
a random arrangement, with ex-
tra pieces in the middle. Your
job is to remove matching
tiles from those that are visi-
ble. The trick is that you can
take only tiles that have a free
edge. In other words, you
can't remove those that have
other tiles touching all four
sides. Computer versions of
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Kurt has gone out of his
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the chance to take l^ack
moves and try another tack.
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BEGINNER BASIC
Larry Cotton
THREE
CHALLENGES
Merry Christmas, happy Cha-
nukah, or season's greetings.
Here are a few BASIC program-
ming challenges that I'd like
for you to consider while Ga-
zette makes the change from
paper to disk. Give them
some thought and see if you
can program a solution ot two.
Last weekend my seven-year-
old second cousin Hunter
showed me a game which I
had never seen before. It's
called Sets. In case you're not
familiar with this game. I'll tail
you about it. It's a fiendishly
simple game in which a deck
of special cards is shuffled,
and 12 cards are displayed
face up in a 3 by 4 grid. Each
player takes turns identifying
and collecting sets of three
cards. More cards are added
to the gnd to replace the sets
as they're removed.
A set IS defined as any
three cards which share cer-
tain characteristics. For in-
stance, one solid red dia-
mond, one solid blue dia-
mond, and one solid green
diamond would qualify as a
set. Similarly, one shaded
green oval, two shaded green
ovals, and three shaded
green ovals would make a set.
Less easy to spot are sets
which might consist of one sol-
id red diamond, two green
shaded diamonds, and three
blue open diamonds.
If only two cards in a group
share a certain characteristic,
the group isn't a set. This isn't
a set: two shaded green ovats,
two solid green diamonds,
and two open red squigglies.
(One way to legalize that set
would be for the green dia-
monds to be blue.) The varia-
bles in a set are color (red,
green, or blue), quantity (one,
two, or three shapes), fill
(open, shaded, or solid), and
the shape itself (squiggly.
oval, or diamond).
Needless to say, Hunter
beat me soundly most of the
time. So what's the program-
ming challenge that ( men-
tioned earlier?
As you sit around the
house on these long cool
nights, see it you can write a
computer program that plays
a Sets-like game. (Is there al-
ready one out there?) Ideally,
the computer would randomly
present the 12 cards, the play-
er would attempt to identify a
set, and the computer would
decide whether or not the set
is legal.
An alternative could be that
the computer presents
groups of three cards, the play-
er decides whether the group
is a legal set or not, and the
computer checks the answer.
Either way, I would like to see
how you would begin program-
ming a game such as this in
BASIC,
Feel free to come up with
your own variation. Send me
the game (finished or not) in
care of COMPUTE'S Gazette.
324 West Wendover Avenue,
Suite 200, Greensboro, North
Carolina 27408. I'll try to deci-
pher your programming and
present some of your best tech-
niques in a future column.
Meanwhile. I'll attempt to
come up with a version of my
own, and we can compare pro-
gramming strategies later.
Here's another challenge
for you: Write a short BASIC
program that will play the West-
minster chimes. These are the
familiar chimes heard in large
clocks that ring on the quarter-
hour. It's not sufficient to let
the SID chip just play the
notes; rather, SID should real-
ly chime! In other words, this
program should use the ring
mode feature of the SID chip
to add the harmonics neces-
sary to sound like real bells.
Even better would be a clock
which chimes four notes on
the quarter-hour, eight on the
half-hour, and so on until the
hour. (Hint: try poking a 21 to
one of SID's control registers.)
Incidentally, some other
well-known chimes are Win-
chester (not actually played in
that city), Canterbury (not ac-
tually played at Canterbury Ca-
thedral), Trinity, Guildford, St.
Michaels, Cairo, and Notre
Dame. As a bonus, you could
include them all with a menu
screen. Hit T for Trinity, G for
Guildford, and so on!
OK, here's the third chal-
lenge, one which fits the real
spirit of "Beginner BASIC."
Send me a short BASIC pro-
gram that rounds numbers.
One might let a user enter any
number that included
unlimited decimal places. The
user could then choose the
number of decimal places to
round off to.
I would also like to see any
programs which round money
calculations to two places, pref-
erably with the ability to line up
decimals vertically. I'll look at
any program that computes av-
erages, golf scores, lottery win-
nings, calories, grades, orwhat-
ever else you want to count!
Way back in the August
1988 issue of CGMPUTEI's Ga-
zette, I showed how to use the
following general formula to
round numbers.
R = INT(N*10TD+.5)/10T[J
R is the rounded number that
you seek, N is the number to
round, and D is the number
of decimal places you'd like
to round off to. The up-arrow
key (next to Restore) raises a
number to a power.
If D were 2, 10 would be
raised to the second power,
or squared. Feel free to adapt
this formiula to any new pro-
gram you're inspired to write.
And keep those cards and let-
ters (and programs) coming.
Be sure to include your
name and address with all
submissions. D
Here are three
programming
cliallenges to keep
you busy during
Oie holiday season.
DECEMBER 1994 COMPUTE G-17
DIVERSIONS
Fred D'Ignazio
With simple meitia
maiilpulation
programs, anyone
can alter a
digitally reconled
event Into a work ot
fiction.
G.18
ID0N7THINK
THIS IS CLEVELAND
EITHER, TOTOI
In Rising Sun, the movie
based on Michael Crichton's
best-selling novel, actor
Wesley Snipes, playing a po-
lice detective, watches a com-
puter screen in wonder. He
sees his head and the head of
his partner (played by Sean
Connery) cut from their own
bodies and pasted onto each
other's shoulders. Following
this demonstration, Snipes is
cautioned by a computer tech-
nician not to trust videotaped
events as evidence of some-
thing that has actually taken
place in the real worfd.
fvloviemakers have used
special effects for years to
make us believe the events
that we see on the silver
screen, or at least to make
them seem believable. Of
course, it usually takes a hefty
budget and a team of artists to
create this video magic.
This kind of virtual reality —
the appearance of being real
without being an accurate re-
flection of physical reality — is
rapidly becoming easier and
less expensive to create. This
is because all media, includ-
ing television, photography,
music, and telephony, are swift-
ly being converted to a digital
format. With simple media ma-
nipulation programs, any art-
ist, production editor, musi-
cian — or kid! — can alter a dig-
itally recorded event into some-
thing fictional which neverthe-
less looks and sounds as real
as the original. With the digital
format there is no "generation
loss" that makes copies look
inferior or doctored.
Many of us, outfitted with
power gloves, stereo comput-
er goggles, bodysuits, and ul-
tra-high-speed computers, ea-
gerly await the dawn of virtual
reality. But a simpler form of vir-
COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
tual reality has already
dawned, and you are liable to
stumble across it in the check-
out lines of your local supermar-
ket or convenience store.
"WORLD RECORD; MOTHER
GIVES BIRTH TO 15 BABIES
AT SAME TIME!"
"CLINTON MEETS JFK— FOR-
MER PRESIDENT ADVISES
CLINTON ON HOW TO SAVE
HIS PRESIDENCY"
"ELVIS SIGHTED AT AERO-
BICS CLASS IN DUBUQUE;
POLICE VERIFY SIGHTING"
"MAN-EATING SHARK DE-
VOURS OIL TANKER— 4000
SAILORS LOST IN SINGLE
BITE"
"MAN MARRIES THREE-INCH-
TALL BRIDE: 'SHE'S THE
WOMAN OF MY DREAMS'"
"TREE GROWS FROM BOY'S
MOUTH— LAD REMEMBERS
SWALLOWING ACORN ON
FOURTH BIRTHDAY"
Thousands of stories similar
to these appear each week in
America's supermarket tab-
loids. Many of them are accom-
panied by photographs depict-
ing the event they describe.
You might see the groom hold-
ing his diminutive bride in the
palm of his hand or an oak
tree growing out of a boy's
mouth. The photographs are
used to "prove" that the fan-
tastic events did occur and
were not concocted by an ed-
itor with a bizarre imagination.
Don't count on it. These pho-
tos can be quickly and easily
created by digitally manipulat-
ing the original photographs
on computer workstations.
For three years I worked
with Sharon Goth-Tew in the
Teacher Explorer Center, a mul-
timedia demonstration center
sponsored by the State of Mich-
igan to show educators some
of the exciting advances in in-
structional technology.
Sharon and I delighted in show-
ing the headlines from grocery
story newspapers to educa-
tors and then demonstrating
how the pictures could be dig-
itally created.
For example, Sharon had a
digitized image of her son Ty-
ler which she called up on the
big four-foot Sony monitor at
the front of the room. She load-
ed Tyler's image into a paint
program and proceeded to
shrink him, stretch him, invert
him, rotate him, and colorize
him. She showed how she
could digitally add an earring
on Tyler's left ear, give him a
case of the measles, or
change the color of his hair or
his eyes. She also showed
how she could shrink his en-
tire face and place it inside his
mouth or stretch his mouth so
that it couid cover the TV
screen. Since Tyler would not
be pleased with the things his
mom was doing to his face,
Sharon always asked the teach-
ers to keep her tricks secret.
Each morning we greeted a
fresh crop of educators from
Michigan and around the coun-
try. Our first warm-up activity
was to divide the educators in-
to five teams and to capture
their images digitally on their
workstation computer. We
used a video camera connect-
ed to a computer frame-grab-
ber board. Since we were on
a network, as soon as the im-
ages were captured, we dis-
played them in an instant com-
puterized slide show on the
classroom TV.
Then the fun began! The
class giggled, shrieked, and
roared as we took men's
heads and placed them on fe-
male bodies and as we add-
ed clip art backgrounds and
placed teachers on the moon,
at the bottom of the ocean, or
in a fifteenth-century castie.
We changed hairstyles, add-
ed hair to bald heads, and
drew clown hats. When we
replicated arms, legs, and
other body parts, we at-
tached them to people's bod-
ies like cut-out paper dolls.
We then added mock head-
lines and published the text
and pictures on the class-
room printer to create our
own imitation tabloids.
One morning, Deb Small,
the number two technology
official in the Michigan Depart-
ment of Education, came to
the center to see what we
were up to. We told Deb we
were digital magicians who
had the ability to transport
her to star in her favorite mov-
ie. After looking through our
collection of laserdiscs Deb
decided that she wanted to
swap places with Judy Gar-
land and become Dorothy in
The Wizard of Oz.
Sharon did all the digital
surgery while Deb selected
images, First they captured
keyframes from the laser
disc. These formed a story-
board of the movie. Next,
they digitized a picture of
Deb as she sat in front of one
of the video cameras in our
laboratory.
Sharon cut the head off
Deb's picture and pasted it
onto Dorothy's shoulders in
The Wizard of Oz. By just cut-
ting the oval of Deb's face
and scaling it appropriately
for each picture, Sharon was
able to fit Deb's face onto
Dorothy's without mussing a
single one of Dorothy's
hairs. Then Sharon went into
fat bits mode and smoothed
the pixels around the oval to
make the transition from
Deb's face to Dorothy's face
subtle and natural.
To complete the effect,
Sharon and Deb composed
a digital slide show that in-
cluded all the photographs
from the storyboard. They
added the song "Some-
where Over the Rainbow"
from the movie as back-
ground music and dialogue
such as "Toto! I don't think
we're in Cleveland any-
more!" (Deb and her family
come from Cleveland.)
They copied the comput-
er slide show onto videotape
and created a customized la-
bel. Deb carried the finished
product out of the center af-
ter only a morning's worth of
work. Deb was so pleased
with the video that she sent
it to her mom and dad back
in Ohio!
So, the next time you hear
a sound, see a photograph,
watch a news documentary
or listen to someone's voice,
ask yourself. Is it real or is it
virtual reality? We live in a
society saturated by electron-
ic media.
In the past this media accu-
rately reflected the real
world — or at least we could
tell when it didn't. Bui the dig-
ital revolution is changing
that. Almost everything visible
through media windows may
soon be something pasted to-
gether with digital smoke and
mirrors. What effect will this
have on the facts? What ef-
fect will it have on our percep-
tion of reality? Most important,
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DECEMBER 1993 COMPUTE G-19
PROGRAMMER'S PAGE
David Pankhurst
FAB FOUR
Delete a range of
program lines, have
dm with your
telephone, and try
to master a
game with tlwse tips
and more.
G-20 COMPUTE
All the tips this month come
from the computer of David
Pankhurst. Look for more infor-
mation about him at the end of
this article.
Line Delete
In October's "Feedback" col-
umn, Roger Howard of Los An-
geles asked about a program
to delete a number of lines
from a program. Here's a pro-
gram to delete a number of
lines from a BASIC program
just by typing in five lines. It's
handy when you want to
erase lines but don't want to
load in a complete system
(like MetaBASIC). Feel free to
use different line numbers.
Just be sure to change the ref-
erences in line 3 and line 4.
1 INPUT'WHAT ARE LOW,
HIGH LIME NOS.'';A,B:
Y=PEEK(43)+256*PEEK
(44)
Z X=PEEK(Y)+256'PEEK
(Y+1):L=PEEK(Y+2)+
Z56*PEEK(Y+3): 1FX=
THEN END
3 IFL<ATHENY=X:G0T02
4 IFL<=BTHEN
PRINT"[CLR][3 DOWN]"L"
[DOWN]Y="Y": B="B":
GOT02:[HOME1"
5P0KE198,Z:P0KE631,13:
PQKE632,13:END
Run Counter
This trick is a one-liner to em-
bed a counter in a program. I
find this line is useful to note
the version of programs I'm
developing. Every time I run
the program, it passes this
line, incrementing the count-
er, Later versions will have
higher numbers.
The first line shows how it
looks in BASIC; the second
shows how you can type it so
it will fit on one line. The sec-
ond version uses the Commo-
dore technique of two-letter
abbreviations. This consists
of entering the first letter and
DECEMBER 1993
holding down the Shift key
while entering the second.
1 R$="00DO": F0R1=7T0
10: POKEI+P£EK(61)+256*PEEK
(62)-20,ASC(MIDS(STR$(VAL
(R$)+1+1E8),I,1)):NEXT
1 r$="0000":(0i=7to10:
pOI+pE(61)+256*pE(62)-20,
aS(ml(slR(vA(rS)<-1+1e8),
i,1)):nE
It's a Call 4 U
This routine takes a telephone
number and gives letter com-
binations thai can be used for
it (such as 555-JOJO instead
of 555-5656). What makes
this one worth typing in is
that it does all combinations,
not just a random sampling. Al-
so, it's only five lines, which is
enough for something as trivi-
al as this. You can enter any
nonnumeric characters you
want, and they will be includ-
ed in the output. Note that
line 50 has all the letters in
the alphabet except Q and Z
10 INPUr'NUMBER ";AS;B=
LEN(AS):DIIVI C(B):
FORD= 1T0B:C(D)=D:
NEXT:C(B)=1:PRINT,„
20 E=B:PRINT,
30C(E)=C(E)+1:IFC(E)>2
THEN C(E)=0: E=E-1: ON
SGN(E) GOTO 3D:END
40 F0RD=1T0B:FS=IV1IDS
(AS,D,1);G=3*VAL(FS)-5:
IF G<1 THEfJ PRINT
F$;: C(D)=5:NEXT: GOTO
20
50 G=G+C(D):PRINT MIDS
("ABCOEFGHIJKLMNO
PRSTUVWXY",G,1);:NEXT:
GOTO 20
Master This
This little program provides a
quick version of the popular
guessing game called Master-
mind. Here, you guess at the
digits in a four-digit number
(digits 1-6), and the results
are displayed with B (black)
for the number of digits that
are correct and in the correct
position and W (white) for dig-
its that are correct but in the
wrong position.
If you want to try different
variations, adjust line 10. L is
the number of digits in the puz-
zle (4), and R is the range
(from 1 to 6 in this case).
10 L=4:R=6:F0R l=1T0L:
D(I)=INT(RND(0)*R+1):
D=D*10+D(I): NEXT:Z=1;
GOT030
20Z=Z+1: PRINT"B='B"W="W
30 PRINT"GUESS="Z:INPUT X;
PRINr'tUP]",: FOR ULT01
STEP-1: Y=INT(X/10):G(I)=
X-YMO:X=Y
40 NEXT:W=0:B=0: FOR l=1T0L:
F(I)=D(I): IF G(I)=F{I)THEN
F(l)=0: G(l)=-1: B=B+1
50 NEXT: FOR J=1T0L: FOR
l=1T0L: IF F(J)=G(I)THEN
F(J)=0:G{I)=-1: W=W+1
60 MEXT:NEXT:IF B<L THEN 20
70 PRINT"CORRECT!":END
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was several thousand dollars.
Later, I received letters from
people who asked about a sys-
tem for regular folks. Fancy
equipment is wonderful, but is
it necessary? So here's anoth-
er, more realistic, list of what
I consider to be the best choic-
es for a GEOS system.
Computer and monitor. I
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I have that exact setup.
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effectively, you need at least
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extra mile and say that you
have to have a RAM expan-
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talk a bit more about RAM in
a moment. For now, let's as-
sume at least a 512K REU
along with your 1541 or 1571
real drive.
Many users also add a
1581 drive. Since I've never
owned one, I can't say much
about it except that it would
be nice. Some other users
have a hard drive on their sys-
tems. If you can afford one, go
for it! I can't afford one of
those, either, but from every-
thing I've heard and read, the
hard drive of choice is one
from Creative Micro Designs
(CMD). If it comes down to a
choice, though, definitely get
a RAM device before a hard
drive.
RAM devices. As I have of-
ten said, I consider a RAM de-
vice to be essential to running
GEOS. It is the single most im-
portant piece of hardware you
can buy. A RAM device is
more important than a second
disk drive, a hard drive, a fan-
cy monitor, or anything else.
I wouldn't hesitate to say
that it's better to run GEOS on
a 64 with a RAM device than
on a 128 without. And while a
1750 or geoRAM may be con-
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you don't plan to run your sys-
tem under it. I'll explain more
about that later.
Input devices. A mouse-
period.
Software. For a file manag-
er, you'il do fine with the desk-
Top that comes with GEOS,
but I recommend Gateway. I
wouldn't want you to be stuck
with RAMLink without Gate-
Vi/ay to make full use of it.
You'll want Gateway if you
plan to use DualTop or
geoSHELL, too,
By starting with Gateway,
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What that means is that you
can create a RAM disk without
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type, such as a 1571 or 1581.
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way to organize your files.
You can usually fill your ap-
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software is now available
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main or shareware programs
so a subscription to Quantum-
Link or GEnie is also a good
idea. This gives you access to
those file libraries. If you want
suggestions on which public
domain files are good, check
out some of my columns over
the past few years. I'll put a
new list of the best GEOS
downloads in an upcoming col-
umn as well.
There are a number of third-
party products which you
should consider, although the
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ties on the Collette Utilities
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Oh, I know that you can make
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Jim Butterfield
BRAKCHES
AND JUMPS
Three ways to
change the flow of a
machine language
program are through
branches, lumps.
and stibroutine calls.
G-24 COMPUTE DECEMBER
A machine language program
executes instructions sequen-
tially. Three ways to change
this flow are branches, jumps,
and subroutine calls.
Branch instructions have a
limited reach, jumping forward
or backward up to 128 bytes
or so. Branch instructions are
conditional, which means the
branch takes place only when
certain conditions are met.
The jump instruction (Jf\/IP)
can take you to any address
in memory (absolute address-
ing). It's unconditional; the
jump always takes you there.
The jump-subroutine instruc-
tion (JSR) also uses absolute
addressing. A link address
will be left on the stack. When
the subroutine has done its
job, it can come back with a Re-
turn (RTS) command.
The eight branch instruc-
tions can be classified by
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tions lest flags left when pre-
vious instructions were execut-
ed. There are four flags.
The 2 (zero) flag is affected
whenever a register (A, X, or
Y) has been modified or after
comparisons have been
made. If a register ends with
as its contents, the Z flag
switches on; with something
other than 0, the Z flag is
cleared. After a comparison,
the Z flag is turned on if an
equality is found. Branch-
equal (BEQ) will make the
branch if the Z flag is on.
Branch-not-equal (BNE) will
branch if the Z flag is off.
The N (negative) flag is af-
fected whenever a register (A,
X, or Y) has been modified or
after comparisons have been
made. The N flag will match
the highest bit of the modified
register. After a comparison in-
struction, the H flag is affect-
ed, but its meaning is com-
plex. So it is seldom used in
1993
this way, Branch-minus (Bfvll)
will make the branch if the Z
flag is found to be on. Branch-
plus (BPL) will branch if the Z
flag is found to be off. Keep in
mind that the highest bit of a
byte Is sometimes thought of
as the sign bit. When the bit is
on, the byte is negative.
The C (carry) flag is affect-
ed by arithmetic or shift instruc-
tions and after comparisons.
The arithmetic and shift oper-
ations use this flag in its usual
carry sense, meaning a bit
has flowed out of the byte
that's being manipulated. Af-
ter a comparison instruction,
the C flag is turned on if the reg-
ister contains an equal or great-
er unsigned value. Branch-car-
ry-set (BCS) branches if the C
flag is on, Branch-carry-clear
(BCC) branches if it is off.
The V (overflow) flag is af-
fected by arithmetic instruc-
tions, add-with-carry (ADC),
and subtract (SBC). Branch-
overflow-set (BVS) and branch-
overfiow-clear (BVC) are the re-
lated instructions.
Let's write a short program
to print Xa number of times on
a screen rov;. BASIC will poke
the desired number into ad-
dress S2100 (decimal 8448),
and then put it into the X reg-
ister, our counter. Here's the
code, starting at address hex-
adecimal 2000.
ZODD LDX $2100
The load X instruction chang-
es a register; so the Z and N
flags will be affected. We
don't care, however, so we'll ig-
nore the flags for the moment.
Next, load A with hexadeci-
mal 58, the ASCII value for X.
2003 LDA #$5S
Again, Z and N are affected.
Z will be off (nonzero value),
and flag N will be off (high bit
of A is off), instructions BEQ
and Bfvll wouidn't branch if
we used them at this point.
BNE or BPL would branch,
but we don't use them yet.
2005 CPX #$00
2007 BEQ $200F
The compare X instruction
will set up the 2 flag. If the val-
ue in X is equal to 0, BEQ will
cause the program to hop
ahead. Why? Because no X's
are to be printed.
The code for the above
BEQ instruction will be two
bytes $F0 and 06. FO means
BEQ, and 06 means skip six
bytes if the branch is taken.
2009 JSR SFFD2
200C DEX
200D BNE $2003
Our loop jumps to the print
subroutine at $FFD2 and dec-
rements the X value by 1 . The
DEX instruction modifies the Z
flag according to whether the
result in X is or not. If not,
BNE takes us back around
the loop. If X is 0, we've fin-
ished printing this line.
200F LDA #$0D
2011 JMF$FFD2
We end the line of X's by print-
ing a Return character ($0D).
This time we jump (JMP) to
the printing subroutine, rather
than using JSR. When print-
ing ends, we return to what-
ever called our fvlL program —
in this case, it was BASIC.
Here's the code in BASIC.
It draws a graph of Y=X'X.
100 DATA 174,0,33,169,88,
224,0,240,6,32,210
110 DATA 255,202,208,250
120 DATA 169,13,76,210,255
200 FOR J=8192T0 8211
210 READ X:T=T+X
220 POKE J,X
230 NEXT J
240 IF T<>2814 THEN STOP
300 FOR J=-6 TO 6
310 POKE 8448,J*J
320 SYS 8192
330 NEXT J O
PROGRAMS
CHAIN REACTION
By Graham Fyffe
You're in charge of a nuclear reactor, and
it's malfunctioning, it's up to you to pre-
vent a meltdown, The radioactive atoms
keep spewing out of the reactor, but you
can contain them in a lead-lined vessel.
But watch out! If the vessel overflovi's, it'll
destroy the reactor!
Getting Started
Chain Reaction is made up of four pro-
grams: a BASIC boot program or load-
er, a machine language program,
graphics, and the main BASIC pro-
gram. To help avoid typing errors, use
The Automatic Proofreader to enter the
BASIC programs; see "Typing Aids"
elsewhere In this section. Be sure to
save the programs on the same disk
and Vifith the proper filenames because
the boot program loads those pro-
grams automatically. Also, you may
want to use BASIC abbreviations for
some of the commands when you en-
ter lines 80, 140, and 150 of the main
program. These lines fill two entire
screen lines.
CHAIN. ML and CHAIN.CHARS are
written in machine language. To enter
these programs, use fvlLX, COM-
PUTE'S machine language entry pro-
gram; again, see "Typing Aids," Enter
the following addresses for CHAIN. fVIL
when MLX prompts.
Starting address: COOO
Ending address: C1FF
Enter the following addresses for
CHAIN.CHARS when MLX prompts.
Starling address: S2D0
Ending address: 84F7
Be sure to save these programs before
you exit MLX.
Playing the Gome
To start Chain Reaction, load and run
CHAIN, BOOT After a few seconds,
the screen should turn black, and
then you should see the message
LOADING CHAIN REACTION. You'll
then see the title screen, the level of
gameplay, and a bunch of colorful
dancing atoms.
To change the level of gameplay,
press f1. To start the game, press Re-
turn. To pause the game at any time ex-
cept during a reaction, press the up-
arrow key that's next to the Restore
key. Press this key again to resume
play. To quit during a game, hold
down the Shift key and press CIr/
Home.
At the start of the game, a colored at-
om will wobble out of the reactor onto
a bar that extends over the contain-
ment vessel. You have a limited time to
move the atom left or right with the
joystick before the atom drops into the
vessel. You can press the joystick but-
ton to make the atom drop ahead of
time. Any atoms touching atoms of
their own color will explode, making ad-
ditional room in the vessel. If an atom
explodes beneath another, the top at-
om will drop down. If you plan out a
careful strategy, you may get dozens
of atoms to explode with a single
drop. The object of the game is to pre-
vent the vessel from overflowing.
The Levels
On the practice level, there are no ob-
stacles in your way. On the easy level,
a green accelerator beam streaks
across the vessel after each drop, If it
comes in contact with anything, it will
change whatever it hits into an atom of
a random color.
On the moderate level, a blue block
appears in the vessel after each drop,
but the green beam will sometimes
clear them out of the way. The beam
never clears out the second row from
the top, so it can fill up with blocks.
On the hard level, there are no
green beams, only blue blocks. The ves-
sel fills up fast, but you'll always have
the top row to work with because
blocks never land on \l
Scoring
When an atom explodes, your score in-
creases by the number of atoms in a
row that have exploded so far. Scoring
also depends on the level of play. You
get no points for practice rounds. Easy
rounds earn you regular points. Moder-
ate rounds earn you three times as
many points as easy, and hard rounds
earn you five times as many points as
easy rounds.
The game keeps track of your
score, how many atoms have explod-
ed, and the high score of the day.
These scores are kept to the right of
the containment vessel.
CHAIN.BOOT
PK 5 REM COPYRIGHT 1993 - COMP
UTE PUBLICATIONS IWTL LTD
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
RX 10 B=B+1
EK 20 IFB=LTHENFORT=0TO7:POKE3
2768+T,0
DX 30 IFB=1THENL0AD"CHAIN.CHAR
S",8,l
DR 43 IFB=2THENL0AD"CHAIN.ML",
3,1
JX 50 POKE53281,0:POKE53280, 15
:PRINT"{BLK} (CLR}";
DD 60 P0KE52,128:POKE56,128:CL
R
KF 73 POKE56576, (PEEK(56576) A
ND 252) OR 1
DP 30 POKE53272,32
XC 9a POKE648,136
PE laa POKE56334,PEEK(56334) A
ND 254
RB 110 P0KE1,PEEK(1) AND 251
QS 123 F0RT=8TO512:P0KE32768+T
,PEEK(53248+T) : NEXTT
DS 130 P0KE1,PEEK(1) OR 4
BR 140 POKE56334,PEEK(56334)
R 1
AM 150 POKE53270,PEEK(53270)OR
16
DM 160 PRINT"{CLR} {WHT}LOADING
{CYNlCHAIN REACTION"
KB 170 AS=CHR$ (34) : PRINT"{BLK)
NEW"
KX 180 A$=CHR$(34) :PR1NT"
{DOWN}LOAD"; AS; "CHAIN. B
AS"; AS;", 8"
PS 190 PRINT"(;4 D0VJM}RaNi7 UP)
"; :POKE198,0
EJ 200 FORT=631T0633:POKET, 13:
NEXTT
FH 210 POKE198,3
CHAIN.BAS
PK 5 REM COPYRIGHT 1993 - COMP
UTE PUBLiCATION.S INTL LTD
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
JM 10 REM SETUP
QR 20 POKE53231,g:POKE53280,0:
POKE 5 3 282, 11: POKE 53 28 3,1
:GETAS:GETAS
XP 30 DIMAG(8,9) :PRINTCHR$ re)
qb 40 s=54272:fort=stos+24:pok
et, . :nextt: pokes+5,9
es 50 za s = " cccccccccccccc " : zb $
= " {home) j 5 down)" ; zc$ = "
{down) (5 left)":zds="
{6 right}":2;e.$="
{7 SPACES)"
GA 60 ZFS = "0afl00O"-.ZG$="
{5 SPACES}{4} A**********
* * * * A " : AT S = " HO £ DOWN }
(2 LEFT }PQ {OFF) (WHT)fUP5
DECEMBER 1993 COMPUTE G-25
PROGRAMS
:XP$
":BL5="{7}{N}iQ>iDOWIJ}
(2 LEFT}<D}{ZHUP1"
GE 70 CO$(l)="{2)-":COS(2)="<33>
":COS(3)="{4}.":CO$(4)="
i5}":COS(5)="{6}":COS(6)
EP 80 SC=0: AT=0:FORT=1TO7:FORI
=1T08:AG(T,I)=. ;NEXTI:NE
XTT:DI=1:DS=0:BA5="EOFF)
{2 SPACES H DOWW) { 2 LEFT)
{2 SPACES} {UP)"
KK 90 DI$ (1) ="PRACTICE" :Dig {2)
="EASY":DIS (3)="M0DERATE
":DIS (4)="HARD"
DH 103 R=3:V=0:C=2:DES="N"
="{RVS}{4JLH{D0WH)
{2 LEFT}NQ"
QJ 110 REM DRAW SCREEN
KM 123 PRINT"{CLR}-C4H0FF)
{3 DOWN)"SPC (22) "IJ^"Z
C$"FLMMH"ZC5"G {3>NO{4>
H"ZCS"G <3}'PQ{4>H"
GD 133 PRINTZG$ZA$" CCCCC ";
XJ 143 F0RT=lTnl6:PRINT"
{5 SPACES }B"SPC (14 ) "B":
fJEXTT: PRINT"{5 SPACES)D
■'ZAS"E(HOMS)"SPC (33) "
<4H0FF}RTV";
KS 150 PRINT"XZ"ZC$" SUWY+ "ZC$"
{2 LEFfT'C->J:{*J'
{shift-spaceT{k}<iht}
<Cg)'{D0WN)"ZCS"{2 LEFT)
{£>£{DOWN){G}{+>{M}
{5 DOWN}":PRINTSPC (22) "
{FHCHXKy}-{2 DOWN)";
KQ 163 PRIMT"{D0Wb]}{4 LEFT){E>
{R}'CU>{HHJH2 D0WN)"ZC
$"fL>(Y}{U>{0>{E}>"2BS"
{7 D0WN)"ZD$; :F0RT=1T06
:F0RI=1T07
XS 170 PRINTCOS(INT (RND(0) *6)+
1) ATS; : NEXT I: print: PRIN
TZD$"{D0WN)"; :NEXTT
GE 180 REM START
EQ 190 POKE53247,0:SYS49323;PO
KES+24,15
EC 200 PRINTZB9"(6 D0WM}"SPC(2
8) "{WHT}"ZF$"(2 DOWN}"Z
C$"fLEFTj"ZF$"{2 DOWN)"
ZC$"{LEFT)"ZFS:GOSaB283
GJ 210 PRINTZB$"(3 D0HN)"ZD5"
{C YN } Fl ~ { WHT } GAMEPLA Y : "
:PRINTZD$ZE5ZE$;"{UP)"
HF 223 PRINTZD$SPC(7-LEN (Dr$ (D
I))/2)DI$(DI) :IFDI=1THE
NDS=a
MS 230 PRINTZD$"(CYN) PRESS RE
TUF!N":PRINTZD$"
{3 SPACES )T0 START"
XE 243 IPAS»'""THENGOSUB960:GOT
0240
EG 250 IFAS="{F1}"THEMDI=DI+1:
IFDIJ&5THSNDI = 1
CB 260 IFAS=CHR$ (13)THEN3ia
GC 270 A$="" :DS=2*DI-3:GOTO210
EE 280 REM PRINT SCORE
FP 290 PRINTZB$"{2 DOWN)":JJ=H
G-25 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
FG
KA
FS
XD
310
329
330
340
S;G0SUB3gQ: JJ=SC*DS:GOS
UB3 00: JJ=AT:GOSUB30a:RE
TURN
an 300 PRINT"{2 DOWN) {WHT}"SPC
(3 5-LEN (STRS (JJ) ) )MID$ (
STRS (JJ) ,2, 10) : RETURN
REM CLEAR AREA
PRINTZBS"(3 DOWNl";:FOR
T=lT0l6:PRINTgDS"(0FF)"
ZESZE$:NSXTT
REM NEW ATOM
PRINTZBS"(2 D0VJN}"ZG5:C
0=C:DS="N"
QH 353 F0RT=22T018STEP-l!PEINT
ZB$SPC(T)COS(CO) ATS; :IF
T=19THENPRINT"G{D0WN}
{LEFT)G":GOTO370
MK 363 PRINT" {D0WN}{LEFT) ":G
OSUB960:V=0:R=7:TiM=10:R
E =
HP 370 GOSUB960:NEXTT:C=INT (RN
D(0) *6) +1:PRINTZB$SPC(2
3)C0${C) " PQ ( DOWN )
{2 LEFT}{2 SPACES)":GOS
UB960
MP 383 PRINTZB$SPC (23)COS (C) ;A
TS:GOSUB960
393 REM INPUT FROM JOYSTICK
400 JV=PEEK(56320) :FR=JVAND
16: JV=15- (JVANDlS) : A=R:
V=0:B=V
KD 410 IFJV=4THENR=R-1: IFR=0TH
ENR=1
IFJV=4THEN463
IFJV=8THENR=R+1 : IFR=8TH
ENR = 7
IFJV=8THEN460
IFFR016THEH493
IFAORTHEKGOSUB1090
TM=TM-1:IFTM=0THEN4 90
GOSUB 1 120 :G0SUB96g: GOTO
400
REM DROP ATOM
PRINTZB$"{2 DOWN)
{5 SPACES){4>A"ZE$ZES
HS 513 A=H:B=V: V=V+1:IFAG(R, V)
<>aORV=9THENV=V-l:GOT0 5
43
SK 520 GOSUB109O;GOSUB1120:GOS
UB963
530 GOTO510
540 AG(R,V) =C0: IFV=0THEN101
AM
KX
HK
420
HR
430
DR
440
QR
450
PH
469
AG
473
PX
483
GX
493
ER
500
KE
XK
AE
BA
HB
QR
RG
550 REM REACTION
560 FS="N":F0RT=1T0S:F0RI=1
T07:IFAG(I ,T) =00 RAG (I ,T
) =10THEN610
570 IFAG(I,T+l)=0aNDT<8THEN
AG(I,T + 1) =aG (I,T) :AG(I,
T}=0:F$="l":GOSUBb30:GO
TO610
580 IFAG{I,T+1)=AG(I ,T)ANDT
<BTHEN'A=I :B=T + 1:F$="2":
GOSUB890
590 IFAG(I-1,T)=AG{I,T)ANDI
>lTHENA=I-l:B=TtF$="2":
G0SUB89a
QK 600
BG 610
QQ 620
FJ 630
HF 640
GJ 650
JJ 660
QH 670
BB 680
QA 690
as 700
FR 710
HD 720
RB 730
CM 740
FA 7 50
SJ 769
FD 770
DE 780
HG
790
RF
800
DX
810
KP
S20
BD
830
JR
340
GJ
850
DH
360
XS
870
RQ
880
XB
890
QF
900
JM
910
MB
920
IFF$ = "2"THENA=I:B=T:FS=^
"1" tGOSUB890:F$="l"
NEXTI:NEXTT: IFF5="N"THE
N660
GOTO 55 9
REM PULL ATOM DOWN
PRINTZBS" {DOWN) "SPC( 1*2
+ 4) ; ;F0RJ = 1T0T: PRINT"
{2 DOWN)"; :NEXTJ:PRINTB
AS : PR INT ZB$ " ( DOWN ) " ;
PRINTSPC(I*2+4) ;:F0RJ=1
T0T+1:PRINT"(2 DOWN}";:
tJEXTJ:PRINTCO? (AG(I,T+1
) ) ATS: RETURN
REM DIFFICULTY CHECK
IFDI=2ANDDS="N"THEN7 50
IFDI=3ANDDS="N "THEN 750
IFDI>2THEN710
GOTO330
REM DRAW BLOCK
I=INT(RND (3)*7)+l:T=INT
(RND{O)*7)+2:AG(I,T)=10
: PRINT ZBS"( DOWN) "see {4+
1*2);
F0RZ=1T0T: PRINT"
{2 DOWN}"; :HEXTZ: PRIMTB
LS
FORZ=10TO1STEP-. 5: POKES
+4,32:POKES+l,Z:?OKES,l
0: POKES +4, 33:NEXTZ:GOTO
330
REM DRAW ZAPPER
A=INT (RND (0)*Q)+1:IFA=2
THEN760
IFDI=2THENA=INT (RND (0) *
5)+4
PRINTZBS"fD0WN}"SPC(6) ;
: FORT =1T0A: PRINT"
{2 DOWN]"; :NEXTT;F0RT=1
T07:PRINT"{6}{SHP>";
FORZ=1TO10OSTEP50: POKES
+4,33:POKES+1,Z:POKEE,1
0: POKES+4, 32:NEXTZ
IFAG(T,A)<>0THENAG(T,A)
= INT {RND(9)*6) +1
NEXTT:D$="Y":GOSUB829:G
OTO550
REM REDRAW AREA
PRINTZBS"{3 D0W:J)"SPC(6
) ; :FORT=1TOB:FORI=1T07
IFAG(I,T) =OTHENPRINTBAS
; :GOTO870
IFAG(I,T) =10THRNPRINTBL
S; :GOT0879
PRIMTCOS{AG{I,T) )ATS;
NEXTI: PRINT: PRINTS PC (6)
"{DOWN}"; :NEXTT; RETURN
POKES +4, 12 8: POKE S+ 1,13:
POKES, 13: POKES+4, 129
IFA=I AND B=T AND AG (I ,
T+1) =AG(I ,T)THENRETURN
IFA=I AND B=T AND AG ( I +
1,T) =AG(I ,T)THENRETURN
REM DRAW EXPLOSIOH
PRINTZ8$"{D0WN)"; :FORZ=
1T0B:PRINT"{2 DOVJM)";:H
EXTZ:PRINTSPC(4+A*2)XP$
OK
940
EQ
950
JD
960
FS
97 13
SP
980
FF
990
BA
1300
R3
1910
SG
ia2B
DG 930 FORZ=10TO20:POKES+4, 33:
POKES +1,Z: POKES, 10: POKE
S + 4,32-.NEXTZ
PRINTZBS"{DOWN)"; :FORZ=
1T0B:PRINT"(2 D0WN3";:N
EXTZ:PRINTSPC{4+A*2)BA$
AG(A,B) =0:RE=RE+1: AT=aT
+1:SC=SC+RE:GOSUB28 0:RE
TURN
GETB5: IFB5=CHR$ (147)THE
N114a
IFSS<>"<"THENA$=B9:RETU
RN
PR I NT "{HOME} {WHT}{OFF}"
SPCdO) "PAUSED"
GETBS: IFD$<>""THENPRINT
"(home! {WHT}{0FF)"SPC(1
0) ZES:RETURN
GOTO990
REM NUCLEAR MELTDOWN
PRINTZB$"{3 DOWN}"SPC(
6) ; :F0RT=1T08:F0RI=1T0
7:PRINTXPS"{UP}";
FC 1030 POKES+4, 129: P0KES+1,T*
10+1*10: POKES, 50: POKES
+4,128
JG 1040 HEXTI : PRINT:PRINTSPC(6
) "{DOWN).";:NEXTT
XS 1050 FORT=1TO5O:POKE53281,0
:POKE532ai, 1
KF 1063 POKES+4,129:POKES+l,T:
POKES, 50 :P0KES+4, 120 :N
EXTT:POKE53 281,0: POKES
+ 24,0
MC 1070 FORT=1TO1000:NEXTT: IFS
C*D3>H3THENHS=SC*DS
HE 1080 GOTO1140
MJ 1090 REM REDRAW ATOM
AC 1100 PRINT" {HOME) {4 DOWK)":
IFB=0THENPRINTSPC(4+A*
2 )BA5: RETURN
GX 1110 PRINT" {DOWN) "; :F0RT=1T
0B:PRINT"{2 DOWN)";:NE
XTT : P8INTSPC (4+A*2) BAS
: RETURN
DK 1120 PRINT"{H0ME}{4 DOWN}":
IFV=0THENPRINTSPC (4+R*
2 )C0$ (CO) AT 5: RETURN
KA 1133 PRItgT"(D0WN}"; :F0RT = 1T
0V:PRINT"(2 DOWN}"; : NE
XTT: PR I NTS PC (4 + R* 2) CO?
(CO) AT $: RETURN
CQ 1143 REM RESET
BG 1150 POKE36866,HS/256:POKE3
6a67,HS-INT (HS/256) *25
6:POKES+24,0:CLR
AG 1160 HS=PEEK(36866) *256+PEE
K(36B67) :S=54272:G0T02
CHAIH.ML
C000:A0 20 B9 20 93 99 90 81 68
C008:C8 F0 03 4C 02 C0 60 A0 C3
C01fl:E0 B9 40 83 99 90 81 CB 8B
CO18:F0 03 4C 11 C0 60 A0 E0 17
C02O:B9 60 83 99 90 81 CS F0 AD
0028:03 4C 20 C0 60 A0 E0 B9 4F
C030:8O 83 99 90 81 CB F0 03 23
C038
:4C
2F
C0
60
AE
FF
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40
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D0
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C040
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8D
04
04
BD
08
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8260
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7B
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7F
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7F
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04
BD
08
01
40
A2
00
FC
8268
FF
FF
FF
FF
FF
FF
FF
55
02
C050
02
21
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04
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60
20
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00
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Graham Fyffe, 15. has been program-
ming in BASIC for eight years. He en-
joys comics and graphics and likes
drawing and painting. He lives in Freder-
icton, New Brunswick. Canada.
CUSTOM CHARACTER
SCREEN DESIGNER
By Daniel English
Advanced programmers commonly
work with custom characters on the 64.
With a tool such as Ultfafont + (July 1984
and September 1986 issues and on The
1992 Best of Gazette Utilities Disk), you
can easily transform characters into
your own custom graphics. Using these
graphics in your own programs was not
so easy — until now. Custom Character
Screen Designer allows you to create mul-
tiple character screens easily and save
them on disk for use in your own pro-
grams. A BASIC display program is in-
cluded in the package. You may want to
keep CCSD on a disk with Ultrafont +.
GeHing Started
The CCSD package consists of three
programs. The main program is the
screen editor. When MLX prompts, re-
spond with the following addresses.
Starting address: COQO
Ending address: CDFF
Be sure to save a copy of the program
before exiting MLX,
The next two programs are used for
displaying your screens from within
your own BASIC programs. The main
CCSD program does not require these
two display files, however,
To help avoid typing errors, enter Dis-
play.BASiC with The Automatic Proof-
reader. See "Typing Aids" elsewhere in
G-2e COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
this section. Remember to save the pro-
gram before you attempt to run it.
Enter DISPLAY.ML with MLX, our ma-
chine language entry program. Again,
see "Typing Aids." When MLX
prompts, respond with the following
addresses.
Starting address: CFOO
Ending address: CF77
Be sure to save these two display pro-
grams on the same disk for later use.
Functions
To begin, load CCSD with the ,8,1 ex-
tension and type NEW and then SYS
49152. A menu screen will appear. The
upper portion of the screen is the
menu of commands, and the lower por-
tion displays your character set. You
may use the default ROM character set
if you do not want to create your own.
To toad a character set, press F, The
character set will always load into
12288 (S3000 hex). If you wish to save
your character set at this location for
use in your own programs, press N.
When a character set is loaded, you
are ready to choose colors. If your char-
acter set was created in multicolor
mode, press M. Pressing keys 1
through 4 will change the four colors.
These keys correspond to the same col-
or keys used in Ultrafont +. If your char-
acter set is not in multicolor mode, on-
ly keys 1 and 4 will apply.
The current color you are changing
will be indicated by the arrow below
the color palette. Notice that when
you're in multicolor mode, color 4
must be set on the right side of the pal-
ette. If you want color memory stored
with your screen data, press C.
Next, you must choose an address
for your screen. The default address is
32768. To change this, press A. You
will be prompted to enter a new ad-
dress. You can have up to 24 screens
in memory (12 with color) at one time.
Remember that each screen uses
1000 bytes {2000 if color is saved). If
you stored one screen at 32768, then
the next one could start at 33768
(35768 if color is saved).
Copying Characters
The lower section of the screen con-
tains your character set. A flashing rec-
tangle encloses the character(s) you
have selected to use while drawing
your screen. Position the cursor with
your joystick in port 2, and use the cur-
sor keys to change the size of the cur-
sor into a window that can copy up to
six characters at a time. Press the but-
ton to choose the character(s) you
wish to copy onto your screen. Press
f7 to switch between the editor and
drawing screen.
In the drawing screen, the window
will appear in the upper left corner of
the screen. Use the cursor keys or
joystick to move the window. Press the
fire button to copy the characters onto
the screen. CCSD lets you type data on-
to the screen also.
All colors and screen functions are
available to you while you're in the ed-
itor. For example, pressing Shift-Clr/
Home will clear the screen, and Ctrl-2
will turn the character color to white. No-
tice the window doesn't advance au-
tomatically when you type. The cursor
keys are the easiest way to move the
window if you wish to type in text.
A copy feature is built into the draw-
ing screen mode. To copy characters
already on the screen, simply move the
window over the character(s) you wish
to copy and press fl. Now when you
draw with the joystick, the copied char-
actef(s) will appear. This eliminates fre-
quent screen swapping.
To store the screen and return to the
Editor menu, press f7. If you do not
want to store the changes, press f8.
Pressing f8 can be used as an undo
feature.
Screens on Disk
When your screen design is complete,
press S from the Editor menu to save
it. You'll be asked for a filename, and
your screen will be saved to disk.
If you want to load a previously
saved screen, press L. A screen is al-
ways loaded into the address specified
at the top of the screen, regardless of
its saved address.
When your character set and
screen(s) have been saved to disk,
you are ready to use them in your own
program. The BASIC display program
was designed to be a subroutine.
First, have your BASIC program load
the DISPLAY.ML file, your saved
screen(s), and your saved character
set. Next, alter the values in
the BASIC
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REM **** CCSD SCREEN
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REM * DISPLAY ML & SC
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Daniel English says he got bored using
FOR-NEXT loops to save character
screens, so he wrote this utility. He
lives in Moreno Valley California.
RIGHT/SIDE II
By Edward A. Gase
Right/Side II is an enhanced version of
the original Right/Side program written by
Robert^'B. Cook and published in the No-
vember 1990 issue of COMPUTE. It lets
you print documents down fanfold paper
rather than printing across it.
This version works with Epson-compat-
ible printers in either single- or double-
density modes with your interface in trans-
parent mode. More significantly, you can
now use a variety of screen character
sets as custom fonts for printing. You'll
even be able to see what the character
set looks like onscreen.
Right/Side II is ideal for those times
when you need to print something wider
than 80 columns on an 80-column print-
er and you don't want to switch to con-
densed type. It's also terrific for making
keyboard overlays.
Although Right/Side II was originally
written with SpeedScript in mind, it
works well with any word processor that
handles PETSCII sequential files.
SpeedScript, EasyScript, and The Write
Stuff are particularly well suited for use
with Right/Side II because they allow you
to include the graphics characters acces-
sible with the Commodore logo key.
Right/Side II consists of two programs,
one in BASIC and one in machine lan-
guage. To help avoid typing errors, enter
the BASIC program with The Automatic
Proofreader. See "Typing Aids" else-
where in this section. When you've fin-
ished, be sure to save a copy to disk. The
second program is written in machine lan-
guage. To enter it, you'll need to use
MLX, COMPUTE'S machine language en-
try program; see "Typing Aids" again.
When MLX prompts, enter the following
values.
Starting address: COOO
Ending address: C4E7
When you've finished typing, be sure
to save a copy of the program with the
filename RIGHT/SIDE. ML before you
leave MLX. When you're ready to use
Right/Side II, simply load and run the
BASIC portion. It will automatically
load the machine language file.
Printing Sideways
When creating a sequential file for
Right/Side II, remember that the right
margin of the text will be printed at
what's normally the top of the paper.
Set your right margin for any width up
to 255 characters and your left margin
to 0. If you are using EasyScnpt, spec-
ify the column width at the startup
screen. If you have chosen a length
that is longer than your longest line,
spaces will be added to the top of the
page.
Right/Side would print 80 lines per
page according to the ohginal article.
With my system. I can get only about
60 lines with 9-10 characters per
inch. That would produce a maximum
length of 25.5-28.3 inches. The results
you get will depend on your printer/
Interface combination and whether you
choose Epson or Commodore mode.
The Epson printouts will be longer, but
there will be more separation between
characters.
Your original file must be a PETSCII
DECEMBER 1993 COMPUTE G-31
PROGRAMS
sequential file. Some word processors
can save in that format. If you're using
SpeedScript, ttie easiest way to create
such a file is to press Shitt-Ctrl-P and
then press D to print your document to
disk as a sequential file. Then you're
ready to run Right/Side II. If you pro-
duce a file that is too long, Right/Side
II will print the excess over the top of
the text on the left side of the paper. If
the printout looks strange, reduce the
length of your file.
Menu Options
When you run Right/Side II and the
menu appears, press f1 to select Cre-
ate Right/Side File. This option con-
verts the sequential file into a Right/
Side II file. Enter the name of your
sequential file and then the name of
the file you'll be creating. The letters f?/
S are added automatically as a prefix
to indicate to the program that this is a
Right/Side II document. Press Return
on a blank line to return to the main
menu.
To print your file sideways, simply
press f3 and then enter the name of
the newly created Right/Side II file. You
don't have to include the R/S prefix; it's
added automatically. Next, choose be-
tween Commodore or Epson. If you
choose Epson, you'll be given the
choice of printing in single or double
density. Then press any key to start
printing. To stop printing, press and
hold the space bar.
Press f2 to load a custom character
set that you may wish to use. You'll be
asked the name of the character set.
rhe onscreen display will change to re-
■|ect the new characters, if you don't
ike what you see on the screen, you
:an change the character set before
/ou print your file.
Any nine-block character set, such
as those created with Ultrafont-H,
ihould work just fine. I have also used
hree-block character sets successful-
y. Normally, you will use Right/Side II
vith uppercase and lowercase charac-
ers, including the graphics characters
iccessed with the Commodore logo
;ey. You could, of course, use an upper-
:ase/graphics set. As there are dozens
)f character sets that have been creat-
;d for the Commodore 64, you should
)e able to get just the look you want
Dr your printouts.
;-32 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
RIGHT/SIDE II
Xft laO REM COPYRIGHT 1993 COMP
UTE PUBLICATIONS, INTL.
, LTD. - ALL RIGHTS RES
ERVED
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/S. "THENRETURN
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4);
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(2 SPACES) {RVS}{RED)C
{OFF)ONNECT PRINTER THE
N PRESS A KEY":GOSUB963
:NP«1
POKE 1 9 B,0: WAIT 19 8,1: GET
Q$: GOTO 5 50
BK 590
QG
BB
690
610
DS
620
AX
630
AK
643
XG
653
JQ 660
XC 670
JA
SP
RS
680
590
700
PA 710
PK 720
GP 730
CM 740
RM
FX
QM
750
760
770
DK 780
CC 790
JK
800
G3
810
KP
820
BS
830
AD
840
EM
850
HM
860
BR
870
POKE 214, 17: PRI>JT" {DOWN)
[2 SPACES) (RVS5 (PUR3p
{off}ress any key to be
gin printing ":gosub930
poke19b,0:wait198,1
poke214,19:print"(down]
{pur}(2 spacesks q> pr
ess (rvs} {red} space
{right] bar (off1 TporIto
ABORT {5 QHHOME)"
QPBN4,4,7+( (H0$="E")*3)
IFM05="E"THENPRINT#4,CH
R$(27)CHRS(64)CHR.?(27)C
HR5 (65)CHRS (8) : GOTO 650
PRINT#4,CHR$(8) ;REM GRA
PHICS MODE
OPEN 8,8,8,F15+",S,R":I
FH05="C"THEHSYS49 356:CL
OSE8:CLOSE4: GOTO 670
SYS49S01:CLOSE8:OPEN4,4
,7: PRINT#4,CHR$(27)CHR
$ (64) ;CL0SE4:RETURH
OPEN 4,4,7:PRINT#4,CHR$
(15) :CLOS£ 4
RETURN
REM DIRECTORY
PRINT"{CLR} {RVS} fGRN}D
(OFF) IRECTORY{BLU}"
SYS57ai2"$",8:POKE43,l:
POKE44,48:POKE768,174:P
OKE769,167 :SYS47003,1
POKE782,48:SYS65493:SYS
4 2 291:LIST:POKE44,8:POK
E768,139:POKE769,227
PRINTlPRINT" {RVS){GRN)
PRESS ANY KEY TO RETUR
N {HOME}"
POKE 198,0: WAIT 198,1: RET
URN
REM INPUT
CP=0:INS="":GOSUfl930
POKE204,0:POKE19 8,0:WAI
T198,1:GETQ$
IFQ9=CHRS(20) ANDCP>OTHE
NCP=CP-1:INS=LEFT$(IN$,
CP) :PRINTQS;
IFQ$=>" "ANDQ$<="Z"ANDC
P<LNTHENCP=CP+1: IN$=INS
+Q$:PRINTQ$;
POKE212,0:IFQ$<>CHR$ (13
)THEN770
POKE204,1:PRINT"{OFF3 "
: RETURN
REM DISK CHECK
OPEN15,8,15,"R0:"+INS+"
="+IN$:CLOSE15:GOTOe50
OPENS, 3, 8, IN5+",S,R":CL
OSES
0PEN15, a,15:INPUT#15,EN
,EM$:CL0SE15
IFDE»ENOREN<20THBNHETUR
N
PRINT" {2 DOWN)
{2 SPACES}{RVS)'flJD
{0FF}ISK ERROR; {BLKl"E
N;EMS:GOSU89 60:POKE198,
FF 880 FORL=aTO1500:GETQ5:IFQ$
=""THENNEXT
PF 390 PRINT"(UP)"BLS
HX 900 RETURN
EM 910 REM SOUNDS
QR 920 REM BING
KJ 930 POKEAT,10:POKESR,73;POK
EWV, 17:PDKEHF, 50: POKE LL
,0
HG 940 F0RI=1T0333:NEXT:P0KEWV
,16: RETURN
JG 953 REM BUZZ
QM 960 POKEHF, 5: POKEAT,0: POKES
R,240:POKEWV,33
GD 970 FORI =1TO500: NEXT :POKEWV
,32:RETURN
GB 980 REM SCREEN
KD 990 POKE53280,3:POKE53281,1
:POKE53272, (PEEK(53272)
AND240)OR10
BA 1000 PRINT"{CYN} {CLR}{I3>{T}
{IHTHU{THIHT>{I}
{TJ{I}<T>{IHT>{IHT>
<I><T}(I}{T}<IHTKI>
{T>{I}{T3-{I>{TKIJ<T}
{I}{T}n}{T}<I><T}{I}
{THIHT}";
PS 1010 PRINT"-C83'
II
CR 1320 POKE214,22:PRINT"
{DOWN}<C3H40 @}";
DF 1030 PRINT" {CYN}
{SHIFT-SPACE){K>
{SHIFT-SPACE}{K}
{SHIFT-SPACEKK}
{shift-spaceHk}
{shift-space)<k}
{shift~spaceHk>
{shift -space){k>
{SHIFT -SPACEHk}
{shift-spaceHk}
{shift-spaceHk}
{shift-spaceHk}
{shift-spaceHk>
{shift-space}{k}
{shift-spaceHk}
(shift-spaceHk}
{SHIFT-SPACEHK}
{shift-spaceHk}
{shift-space}<k}
{shift-spaceHk}
{shift-space} {home}":p
OKE2023,97
EG 1040 IFPSTHENRETURN
JD 1350 PRINTTAB (5) "{BLK)ABCDE
{2 SPACES }{ 3} {M}
il4 £>£ (OFF) £RVS)
{BLK} ABCDE "
EA 1060 PRINTTAB [5) "FGHIJ
{2 SPACES) {RED){GJ
{14 spacesK+Hrvs!
{elk} {OFF} {RVS) FGHIJ
II
SA 1370 PRINTTAB (5) "KLMNO
{2 SPACES}{3}{G>
{2 SPACES) {RVS) {BLK}R
{0FF)IGHT/{RVS)S{0FF)I
DE{2 SPACES) {RED){+}
{RVS}{BLK) tOFF) (RVS)
KLMNO "
MK 1080 PRINTTAB(5) "PQRST
{2 SPACES)i3>{G>
{14 SPACES }{REDH + }-
{RVS){BLK) {OFF} {RVS}
PQRST "
QX 1090 PRINTTAB (5) "UVWXY
{2 SPACES} {RED) {N>
{14 Q}fD>{RVS){BLK)
{OFF} {RVS)UVWXY"
XJ 1100 PRINTTAB(5) "{2 SPACES}
Z{5 SPACES) {RVS}
{16 SPACES) {OFF)
{3 SPACES) {RVS) Z"
FJ 1110 PRINTTAB (7) "{DOWN}
{BLU}F 1{2 SPACES}
{RVS} {GRN)C{OFF}REATE
{SPACE} {RVS) {BLK)R
{OFF)lGHT/(RVS}S{OFF) I
DE {GRN)FILE"
JF 1120 PRINTTAB (7) "{2 DOWN)
{BLU)F 2{2 SPACES}
{RVS) {GRH} LOAD (OFF)
{2 SPACES} {RVS} (BLK)C
{0FF)HARACTER SET{GRN)
II
SS 1130 PRINTTAB (7) "(2 DOWN)
{BLU)F 3C2 SPACES)
{RVsi {GRN)P{OFF)RINT
[RVS) {BLK}R{OFF)IGHT/
{RVS}S{0FFTiDE {GRN)FI
LE"
CD 1140 PRINTTAB(7) "!2 DOWN)
{BLU)F S{2 SPACES)
(RVS) {GRN)D{OFF)ISK DI
RECTORY"
AX 1150 PRINTTAB (7) "{2 DOWN)
(BLU)F 7{2 SPACES}
{rvs)Tgrn}q{off)uit PR
OGRAM"
GD 1160 F0RL=1T05:P0KE214,4+L*
3: PRINTTAB (6) "(DOWN)
{5>{z3>i3 s>{p>{5 left)
{downHa>{3 RIGHT}{EJ
{5 LEFT) {D0WN}{R>{3 W}
■CH>{H0ME}":NEXT
AP 1173 RETURN
ES 1180 PS=1:GOSUB1000:PS=0
DP 1190 PRINTTAB (7) "{2 DOWN)
{RVS){RED}'it#*########
MB 1200 PRINTTAB (7) "{RVS}'
{off) (GRN) LOAp
{3 SPACES) {RVS} [BLK)C
{OFF)HARACTER SET{GRN}
{3 SPACES) [RVSTlRED)
{BLK) "
BM 1210 PRINTTAB(7) "(RVS) {RED}
'$S$S$SSSS5S$SSS$$$5$$
$$${BLK} "
SH 1220 PRIHTTAB(9) "{RVS){BLK}
{24 SPACES}"
KR 1230 POKE214,10:PRINT"
{DOWN} {RVS} {BLU}C{OFF}
DECEMBER 1993 COMPUTE G-33
PROGRAMS
HARACTEF
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B7G0
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30
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QX 1240
IFIN5
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THENRETURN
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85
02
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00
88
00
FD
XX 1250
IN$=LEFT$ (IN$
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:GOSU
C0F8:
CC
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REM INITIALIZE
0168
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A A
20
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G-34 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
Edward A. Gase of Fairfield. Ohio, Is
an earth science teacher and presi-
dent of the Cincinnati Commodore Com-
puter Club. He Is married and has four
children between the ages of 4 and
20. l-ie uses R/S II to design keyboard
overlays similar to Leroy's Cheatsheets.
JIGSAW 128
By Emil Heyrovsky
Jigsaw 128 is a 50-piece jigsaw puzzle
game for the 128 in 40-column mode.
With it you can scramble and reassemble
any Koala- or Doodle-format picture, Un-
like the traditional game, Jigsaw 128 us-
es nice rectangular pieces.
Typing It In
Jigsaw 128 is written entirely in ma-
chine language but loads and runs like
a BASIC program, To enter it, use the
128 version of fvlLX, See "Typing
Aids" elsewhere in this section it you
need a copy of this program. When
MLX prompts, respond with the follow-
ing values.
Starting address: 1C01
Ending address: 2D08
Be sure to save a copy of the program
before exiting MLX.
Ploying the Pieces
To start the game, load it using the
DLOAD command and type RUN. A
menu screen will appear and you'll be
asked to insert a disk. This means a
disk that contains pictures saved In Doo-
dle or Koala format. (These files have
DD or a reverse space and PIC at the
beginning of their filenames.) If any pic-
tures are found, a list of their names
will be displayed.
You can cycle through the list using
the cursor keys. If you want to load an-
other picture disk, press D, and you'll
be asked to insert a disk. The Stop key
gets you back to the current list. Press
Q to quit the program.
Once you've selected the picture
you want, press Return to load it, A Doo-
dle graphic will load almost instantly. It
takes about 24 seconds, however, to
set up a Koala picture. The screen will
be blank during this time.
Once the picture loads, you'll have
a couple of seconds to look at it, and
then the screen will scramble. If you
need another took at the unscrambled
picture, press the 12B's Help key.
The object of Jigsaw 128 is to move
rectangular portions of the scrambled
picture about the screen to reconstruct
the original image. To move your rec-
tangular cursor to the desired piece.
use the J, I, K, and L keys to move
left, up, down, and right, respectively.
To exchange two pieces, mark the
first one with the space bar. Move the
cursor to the desired location and
press the space bar again. If you
change your mind about the marked
block, cancel your selection by press-
ing the left-arrow key (the one at the
top left corner of your keyboard).
When you think you have all the piec-
es in their correct location, press C,
You'll hear an unpleasant sound if
you're wrong or a slightly more pleas-
ant one if your image is correct. If the
sound is the better of the two, the cur-
sor frame will disappear. Then, press
any key, and you'll have the choice of
using the same picture again or trying
another.
While playing the game, press Stop
to return to the text screen and the pic-
ture list. You'll be asked to confirm: this
choice. All of these commands are list-
ed on the main screen.
A Few Notes
In a multicolor (Koala) picture, two ar-
eas may appear identical, but the
bytes that represent them may differ.
TInis fact is important if you want to com-
pare the appearance of the active
screen v/ith the one in memory The rou-
tine that standardizes the pictures
causes the 24-second delay when set-
ting up a Koala picture. With the Doo-
dle or high-resoiution files, this routine
is much simpler, and the delay Is hard-
ly noticeable.
It is sometimes difficult to complete
a picture with many intricate or blank
areas. It sometimes helps to look for
"dust" or single dots in an area. If you
get stuck, just press the Stop key at
any time and load another graphic.
If you select Q to quit from the text
screen, the function key definitions will
be restored, but you'll have to load the
program to play again.
Finally, I would like to thank my broth-
er Albert for writing the Koala help rou-
tine and for his advice.
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Em/7 Heyrovsky, 19. is a mathematical
engineering student at Prague Polytech-
nic in the Czech Republic.
SPLAST
By William F. Snow
Splast is an enjoyable way to practice
spelling words. There are a lot of spelling
programs around, but Splast has some
advantages. It's both fun to play and chal-
lenging. Because Splast presents the
words in the sanne format used by some
popular standardized tests, it's also
great practice for taking tests!
Splast is written in BASIC. To help
avoid typing errors, enter the program
G-38 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
with The Automatic Proofreader. See "Typ-
ing Aids" elsewhere in this section. Be
sure to save a copy of the program be-
fore you attempt to run it.
How to Use the Program
To play Splast, simply load the pro-
gram and type RUN. The first screen
gives instructions for playing the
game. The player is then asked to
give his or her initials and to choose a
level of play.
After a level of play is chosen, the
game begins. The Splaster, located at
the bottom of the screen, is controlled
by a joystick in port 2. Three words are
flashed on the screen. Two of them are
spelled correctly, and one is mis-
spelled. The player must position the
Splaster beneath the misspelled word
and hit the fire button. Move fast be-
cause the words don't stay on the
screen for long. The Splaster launches
an arrow at the selected word, so be
sure your aim is as accurate as your
spelling.
The skill levels are 1-3, with 1 being
the easiest. As the levels increase, the
time given to find and splast the incor-
rect word decreases, but the points
awarded for each Splasted word in-
crease. The program keeps track of
the high score achieved during each
session so that players can compete
with each other.
After all the words have been present-
ed, you get a screen that gives your
score and lists both the words you
spelled correctly and the ones you
missed. You then have the opportunity
to play again or quit.
Because Splast is written in BASIC,
it's easy to modify. The words used are
in data statements in lines 1340-1360.
The program is set to use 25 words. If
you use a different number of words,
you'll have to make a few changes to
the program. You'll need to change the
dimension statements and the FOR-
NEXT loop in line 20, the FOR-NEXT
loops in lines 290 and 310, the CT val-
ue in lines 350 and 470, the random
number generator in lines 370 and
380, the divisor in line 920, and the
FOR-NEXT loops in lines 1090 and
1140.
If all the words in a given list are
long, there may be a problem with the
right-hand word wrapping around the
screen. This shouldn't happen often,
however.
In my fifth-grade classroom, I have a
disk with 36 versions of Splast, one for
each weekly spelling unit. The children
really, enjoy using it to study the
words. After the program itself is
typed in, it really doesn't take long to
change word lists. A parent or teacher
might even have the child or children
type in the words.
SPLAST
BM REM COPYRIGHT 1993 - COHP
UTE PUBLICATIONS I»TL LTD
-ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
RF 10 REM SPLAST BY WILLIAM F.
SNOW
HD 20 DIMWDS (25) ,Y{25) ,R${25) ,
WW5(25) ,RWS(25) :FOR 1=1
{SPACElTO 25:READ WDSd)
:NEXT
GC 30 AS=CHRS (65) :ES=CHR5{69) :
IS=CHRS(73) :0$=CHR5t79) :
US=CHR$(85) :V=53248:SL=5
4272
MJ 40 F0RS=1228a TO 12351:READ
SP:POKE S,SP:NEXT
PO 50 FORS=12352 TO 12415:READ
SPiPOKE S,SP:NEXT
EK 60 POKE53280,1:POKE53281,13
: PRINT" {BLK} {CLR}
[3 D0WN}"SPC(17) "{RED)SP
LAST{BLK}"
EM 70 PRIHT:PRINT"{4 RIGHT)THE
OBJECT OF {RED) SPLAST
{BLKl IS TO FItJD THE MIS
PELLED WORD";
FQ 80 PRINT" AMD '{REDlSPLAST
[BLK) ' IT OFF THE
[2 SPACES ) SCREEN. ";
OF 90 PRINT" YOU ARE GIVEN I'HR
EE WORDS AT A{2 SPACES )T
IME.";
BF 100 PRINT" TWO OF THEM ARE
(SPACE) SPELLED CORRECTL
Y AND ONE IS WRONG.";
KS 110 PRINT" YOU MUST POSITIO
N";
FA 120 PRINT" YOUR" {8ED)SPLA3T
ERfBLK)' UNDER THE MISP
ELLED W0R0{5 SPACES) (US
ING A JOYSTICK ";
EG 130 PRINT"IN PORT TWO) AND
{SPACE)HIT{2 SPACES)THE
FIRE BUTTON.";
OR 140 PRINT: PRINT" [4 RIGHT )TH
ERE ARE THREE LEVELS.";
KC 150 PRINT"AS THE LEVELSINCR
EASE YOU ARE GIVEN";
AQ 160 PRINT" LESS TIME TO
(5 SPACES)FIND THE INCO
RRECT WORD.
GD 170 PRINTSPCt9) "{4 DOWN}HIT
ANY KEY TO BEGIN
XJ
im
SH
213
EJ
220
AS
230
DB
240
MB
250
GQ
260
CS 130 GET WWS:IF WWS=""THEN18
AS 193 RC=1: INPUT"{CLR}
{2 DOWN} {3 RIGHT}PLEASE
ENTER YOUR INITIALS";!
NS
RC=1:PRIHT"{2 DOWN}
(3 RIGHT }WHAT SKILL LEV
EL ?"
PRINTlPRINTSPC (lU) "D B
EGIfJNER": PRINT rPRINTSPC
(10) "2) AVERAGE
PRINT:PRINTSPC(10) "3) F)
XPERT
GET PLS:IFPLS="1"0RPL$=
"2"ORPL$="3"THEN2 5a
GOTO230
PL=VAL{PLS)
PRIHT"(CLR3 {5 DOWN]"SPC
(14) "PLEASE{2 SPACES}WA
IT":PRINT:PRINTSPC(12) "
SCRAMBLING WORDS"
PQKE2@4 0,192j POKE V+ 2 1,1
:POKEV+39,6
POKEV, 130: POKE V+ 1,220
F0RI=1 TO 25
X=INT (RHD(.) *25) +1
F0RCK=1 TO 25:IFX=Y(CK)
THEN300
NEXT CK:Y{I}=X
RS (X)=WDS (I) :HEXTI
CT=1
POKEV+31,0:IF CT>25 THE
N920
ES=0:XA=130:POKEV,XA:GO
SUB520
WG=INT (RND (.) *2 5) +1:WG$
=R$ (WG) :IFHG$=RS(CT)THE
N370
WH=INT (RND(. ) *25) +1:WHS
= R$(WH) :IFWli$=WG$ORWHS =
RS (CT)THEM380
C=INT (RND(.) *3) +l:OtJ C
(SPACE)GOSUB77O,78a,7 90
IF PL=1 THEN FOR FL=lTO
25: IF ES=1 THEN460
IF PL=2 THEN FOR FL=1T0
20; IF ES=1 THEN460
IF PL=3 THEM FOR FL=1T0
15tIPES=l THEN460
CK=0:PRINT"{CLR}
{7 DOWN} {3 RIGHT}"W05(1
)SPC(4)W0S (2)SPC(4)WO$(
3)
CL=a:GOSUR680
IF CL=1 THEN GOSUBa70
NEXTFL
POKEV+31,0: IF CT>25 THE
N920
IF ES=1 THENRW=RW+1:RWS
(RW)=R$(CT) :WW$ (CT)=""
KS 490 IF ESOl THEN GOSUB1330
:WW=WW+1:HWS (WW) =RS (CT)
:RN =
GB 500 CT=CT+1
RE 513 GOT0359
RP 520 WL=LEN(R$(CT)) :L=INT(RN
JF 270
GQ 280
DC 2 '30
JP 300
JC 310
KC 320
QF 330
DX 340
CJ 350
JB 360
QR 370
CM 383
OE 3 90
GA 400
FM 410
PD 420
FQ 430
BK
440
FK
450
PQ
468
GA
470
JC
480
D(.)*WL+1) ;LES = MID3 (RS(
CT) ,L,1) :LE=ASC(LE$)
AQ 530 LTS>=CHRS(LE)
GH 540 IFLT$=AS OR LTS=E$ OR L
T$=I5 OR LTS=OS OR LTS=
■J$ THEN560
JG 550 GOTO520
KJ 560 RV=INT (RND(.) *5) +1:0NRV
GOTO 570, 580, 59 9, 60 0,61
MX 570
DC 58
PA 590
JG 600
RH 610
MK 620
AA 633
FG 640
DB 650
EP 660
QB 670
JQ 680
FX 690
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PF
713
fC
720
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730
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740
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750
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760
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770
PR
780
MB
790
PX
800
SC 310
HD 820
KM 830
HE 840
BS 850
BM 860
PB 870
V$=A$:GOTO620
V$=E$:GOTO620
V$=I$:GOTO620
V$=OS:G0TO62a
VS = US
IF V$=LTS THENSea
RWS^LEFT? (R$ (CT) ,L-1)
RM=WL^(L) :IFRM<1THEN520
LWS=RIGHTS (RS (CT) , RM )
NW$=RWS+V$+LWS
RETURN
JY=PEEK(56 320)AND15:F8=
PEEK(56320)AHD16
IF JY=7THEN XA=XA+10:IF
XA>250THEN XA=250
IF JY=11 THEN XA=XA-10:
IF XA<30 THEN XA=30
POKEV, XA: IF FB=0 THEN G
OSUB730: RETURN
RETURN
POKEV+3I,g:POKE2041,19 3
:POKEV+21,3:POKEV+2,XA:
POKEV+40,2
FOR Y=220 TO 50 STEP-1:
P0KEV+3,Y
IF PEEK{V+31) AND2=2THEN
CL=1: RETURN
NEXT :RC=0: POKE V+ 21, PEEK
{V+21) AHD(255-2) :GOSUBl
300:RETURN
WOS (1) =NWS:WO$ (2) =WG3:W
05{3)=WHS:CW=1:RETUEN
VTOS (1) =WG$:WOS (2) =HW$:W
0$ (3) =WH$:CW=2: RETURN
WO S ( 1 ) =WG5 : WOS ( 2 ) -WH S : W
0$ (3) =NW$:CW=3:RETURN
PRINT"{CLR} (12 DOWN)
{4 RIGHT}YOU SPLASTBO T
HREE IN A ROW"
PRINT:PRINT"(3 RIGHT}WI
THOUT A MISTAKE !1!":F0
R RC=1 TO 2500:NEXT
RC=0 : PRINT " (CLR) " : POKES
3 281,1:POKEV+40,0:FORWA
=1 TO 5O0:NSXT
FORI =1T015:PW = INT (HND{ .
) *50) : PRINTSPC(PW) "
(aLK}NICE G0ING1":NEXT
FOR WA=1 TO 203O:NEXT:P
OKE53281,13
POKEV+21, PEEK (V+21) AND (
253-2) :POKEV+29,3:POKEV
+2 3,0:CH=3:POKEV+3,0
GOSUB1330
IFXA<109 AND CW=1 THEM
{SPACE }GOSUB1170:ES=1;R
ETURN
PQ 383 IFXA<205ANDXA>109ANDCW=
2THENGOSUB1170:E3=1:RET
URN
HP 890 IF Xfl>189 AND CW=3 THEN
GOSUB1170:ES=1: RETURN
EH 900 IF ES=0 THEN GOSUB1390
BD 910 POKEV+21, PEEK(V+21)AND(
255-2) :POKEV+3,0:RC=3:R
ETURN
BS 920 RP=INT ( (RW/25) *100) :POK
EV+21,0
ss 939 print"(clr} (2 down}you
(spaceJsplasted "RP"%
f the words"
HB 940 PRINT"{DOHN} (2 RIGHT}TH
E WORDS YOU GOT CORRECT
ARE":PRINT
SK 950 F0RI=1 TO RW : PRINTRW$ ( I
) , :NEXT
SE 960 PRINT"{HOME} {15 DOWN 3
{2 RIGHT}TaE WORDS YOU
(SPACE) GOT WRONG ARE":P
RINT
GE 970 F0RI=1 TO WW: PRINTWWS ( I
) , :NEXT
KR 980 PRINT: PRINTEPC (3) "(WHT)
HIT ANY KEY TO CONTINUE
(BLK)"
QK 990 GET WAS: IF WAS=""THEN99
CF 1000 PRINT"{CLR} [5 DOWN}"SP
C(13) INS"'S SCORE WAS
{SPACE}"SC
ES 1319 PRINT: PRINT"{3 SPACES}
THE BEST SCORE FOR THI
S SESSION IS"
HR 1920 IFINS=HN$THEN1040
DC 1030 IFSC=HSTHENPRINT"
{4 SPACES}A TIE BETWEE
N "INS" AND "HNS" WITH
"SC:GOTO1060
HB 1040 IFSOHSTHEN HS = SC:HN$ =
INS
PR 1050 PRINT:PRINTSPC (15)HN5"
'S{2 SPACES)"HS
GE 1060 PRINT"{5 DOWN}
C3 SPACES}WOULD YOU LI
KE TO TRY AGAIN (Y/N) "
EF 1070 GET PAS: IF PAS="Y"OR P
AS="N"THEN1090
SH 1080 GOTO1070
JE 1090 IF PAS="Y"THENF0RER=1T
025: Y(ER) =0 : RWS (ER) =""
;VWS (ER) ="" :NEXT
XM 1190 IFPA$="Y" THEN RW=0:WW
=0:SC=0:GOTO2a0
BE 1110 PRINT"(CLR) {6 D0WN}IS
{SPACE3THERE ANYONE EL
SE WHO WANTS TO PLAY ?
":PRINTSPC(1S) " (Y,N) "
JG 1120 GET PBS: IF PB5="Y"0R P
BS="N"THEN1140
GH 1130 GOTO1120
PD 1140 IF P85="Y"THENF0RER=1T
025: Y (ER)=0:RWS(ER)=""
:WWS (ER)="" :NEXT
EB 1153 IFPBS="Y"THENRW=9:VW=0
DECEMBER 1993 COMPUTE G-39
PROGRAMS
:SC=O;GOTO190
RJ 1160 END
BC 1170 IF PL=1 THEN SC=SC+10
QS 1180 IF PL=2 THEN SC=SC+12
EE 1190 IF PL=3 THEN SC=SC+15
JQ 1200 RN=RN+1:F0R LL=SL TO S
L+24:POKE LL,0:NEXT:PO
KE SL+24,15
XK 1210 POKE SL+5,64:POKE SL+6
,136
RP 1220 POKESL+l,28:POKE SL,49
:P0KE SL+4,33:F0R SN=1
TO 753:NEXT
FP 1230 POKESL+1, 38:POKESL,38:
POKESL+4 , 33 :FORSH=1T07
aOlNEXT
FM 1240 POKE SL+4,32:FOR T=l T
50:NEXT
EH 1250 POKE SL + l,56.;POKE SL,9
9:P0KE SL+4,33:FOB SN=
1 TO 700:NEXT
SF 1260 POKE SL+4,32:FOR T=l T
500: NEXT
CB 1270 POKEV+21, PEEK (V+21) AND
{255-2) :POKEV+3,0
FD 1280 IF RtJ = 3 THEN GOSUBSSO:
RN =
BD 1290 RETURN
AQ 1300 FORLL=SLTOSL+24:POKELL
,0:NEXT:POKESL+24,1S:P
OKESL+5, 34 : POKESL+6 , 20
XD 1310 POKESL+1,8:POKESL,97:P
OKESL+4 , 33 : F0RSN=1T017
0a;NEXT:POKESL+4,32
EM 1320 FOR SN=1 TO 50:NEXT:RN
=9: RETURN
MC 1330 PRINT" {CLR}":F0RRC=1 T
1000:HEXT:ES=1:RETUR
N
DP 1340 DAT AGRACE,GR^ZE, WHALE,
BRAKE, OPERATE, MI STAKE,
ESCAPE , GRAPES , SAFELY
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NAAC UNIVERSAL
WINSTATtON 433
The Universal Winstation
433 is a pleasant surprise.
I've seen many PC systems
from small companies over
the years, and I'm usually
wary of them. Too often,
they're designed to sell for
the lowest possible price,
and they tend to show it —
such systems often have flim-
sy cases, expansion devic-
es that don't work well togeth-
er, and mushy keyboards.
Not so with NMC's Universal
Winstation 433. Although
this computer comes from a
small Utah company that
you may never have heard
of, it shows all the quality
you'd expect from a Dell,
Compaq, or IBM machine.
The Winstation I evaluat-
ed was configured as a mul-
timedia system, and it
meets the new fvlPC Level 2
specification. No stow, after-
thought CD-ROM drive and
no-name sound card here —
the system sports a Pro Au-
dioSpectrum 16 sound card
and a blazingly fast Toshiba
CD-ROM drive. The PAS 16
is an impressive board, with
16-bit stereo sound, full
Sound Blaster emulation,
and software control of all
board settings — you can
even change the volume
from the keyboard while play-
ing a game. The dual-
speed Toshiba CD-ROM
drive uses a SCSI-2 inter-
face and has a data transfer
rate of up to 330K per sec-
ond and an average access
time of 200 ms; it also has a
256K cache that speeds
things even more.
The rest of the system ex-
hibits similar quality, The
1MB STB PowerGraph
S'v'GA card uses an S3 accel-
erator and a VESA local-bus
connection to provide exem-
plary performance in both
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Windows and DOS. The
board supports 24-bit true
color in 640 x 480 mode,
16-bit color at 800 x 600,
and 256 colors at 1024 x
768: a handy utility lets you
change modes without us-
ing Windows Setup. The
200MB Western Digital IDE
hard drive is supported
ish as well. More important,
it has a solid feel with audi-
ble, tactile feedback. The
noninterlaced ADI Mi-
croScan 3G monitor has a
crisp .28-mm dot pitch and
electronic adjustment con-
trols. The multimedia system
includes a number of CD-
ROMs, including a disc of
NMC's Universal Winstation 433 exhibits a level of quality you
would expect in a more expensive MPC system.
through an uncached 32-bit
local-bus IDE controller. The
system has eight slots (two
have VLB extensions), five
of which are available in the
multimedia configuration.
The case opens without a
screwdriver, making expan-
sion a snap.
With local-bus peripher-
als and a 256K secondary
processor cache, the Winsta-
tion's performance is quite
perky. (A ZIP socket sup-
ports updating to a DX2 or
P24T Pentium processor if
you ever feel the need for a
speed boost.) And in addi-
tion to being fast, this sys-
tem boasts good looks. The
case has an attractive mold-
ed plastic front, and the
space-saver keyboard is styl-
shareware, an encyclope-
dia, an atlas, games, and a
CD-audio classical music
sampler.
Documentation for Win-
dows 3.1, DOS 6, the moth-
erboard, and all the expan-
sion cards is included, but
NMC didn't stop there.
There's a handy 40-page
Starter Manual that will get
even first-time PC owners
up and running; it includes
setup, troubleshooting, and
technical-support informa-
tion. This little booklet can
make a lot of difference to
the wary first-time computer
owner; too many companies
just toss in the manuals for
the components and leave
system operation as an exer-
cise for the purchaser.
Best of all, this high quali-
ty comes at the price of a
low-end cione. NMC pro-
vides unlimited toll-free tech-
nical support, a one-year war-
ranty on parts, and a two-
year warranty on labor. If
you're looking for a solid mul-
timedia system at a dis-
count price, I'd suggest you
take a close look at NMC's
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The two programs have
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such as drag-and-drop text
editing, built-in support for
graphic fonts, and optional
control bars. Both programs
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versions of the Grammatik
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But despite surface similar-
ities, Microsoft Word for MS-
DOS 6.0 and WordPerfect
6.0 for DOS aren't as compa-
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were; they each suit very dif-
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if you're using a 286 with a
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have a fast 386 or belter, at
least 520K of RAM, and can
afford 16MB of hard disk
space, WordPerfect is a con-
siderably more flexible pro-
gram, with impressive
spreadsheet, fax, sound,
presentation, and desktop
publishing capabilities.
WordPerfect 6.0 offers
the best of versions 5.1 for
DOS and 5.2 for Windows
and adds several new fea-
tures of its own. You can
wrap text around irregular
graphics, print postal bar
codes for bulk mail, and
open up to nine documents.
This last enhancement was
long overdue, and while it's
still limited compared to
Word — in which you're lim-
ited only by available mem-
ory — it beats the old two-doc-
ument limit.
The program lets you
switch between text mode
and a Windows-like graphi-
cal interface at any time.
You can compose and edit
with the speed of text mode
and then switch to VGA
graphic mode to place your
pictures and make your oth-
er layout decisions. The
graphic mode, however, Is
sluggish compared to Win-
dows applications. Screen re-
draws can be painfully slow
when you're using pictures
or soft fonts in your docu-
ment, even on a 33-fvlHz
486DX with BfVIB of memory
Word 6.0 is a capable
DOS program that offers
you many (but not all) of the
features of Word for Win-
dows 2.0. Its table-creating
tool and TrueType fonts are
Windows carryovers, as are
drag-and-drop editing and
automatic bulleting. The pro-
gram is probably intended
to prepare DOS users for
the eventual switch to Win-
dows. If you own a 286 or
slow 386 but plan to up-
grade to faster equipment in
the future, you can buy
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was brought over from its Windows counterpart
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WordPeriect S.O for DOS sports a Windows-like interface and the
ability to open up to nine documents at once.
Word 6.0 now and upgrade
later to Word for Windows
6.0 (Microsoft skipped from
2.0 to 6,0 to bring the ver-
sion numbers in line} for
free under Microsoft's dual-
license agreement.
One of the most signifi-
cant improvements to both
Word and WordPerfect is
the built-in capability to han-
dle graphic soft fonts. Both
support scalable TrueType
fonts; WordPerfect also sup-
ports Type 1, CG Inteilifont,
and Bitstream Speedo
fonts. To prevent printer fiies
from becoming too large, Mi-
crosoft suggests that you not
install more than 5 new fonts
at a time and no more than
20 totai. WordPerfect's docu-
mentation mentions no such
limitation.
Unfortunately, "deep archi-
tectural problems" prevent
Word 6.0 from printing Tru-
eType fonts as text on the
popular Hewlett-Packard
DeskJet printer. This prob-
lem doesn't exist with other
ink-jet printers, and Micro-
soft says third-party soft-
ware is available which will al-
low you to print TrueType as
well as other graphic fonts
on your DeskJet.
Like WordPerfect, Word al-
lows you to switch between
text and graphic modes on
the fly. However, there's a
big difference between
what each program calls
graphic. Word can give you
bold, underline, and italic
screen fonts as well as a pre-
view of special characters,
but it's not comparable to
WordPerfect's WYSIWYG.
Depending on your word
processing needs and hard-
ware, the choice between
the latest versions of Word
and WordPerfect should be
a clear one. If you need max-
imum speed with minimum
hardware, take a good look
at Word. If you need more
from your word processor
than just word processing
and have the computing
power to back it up, WordPer-
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sci-fi parody that skirts the lunatic fr-
inge of comedy adventure.
Officially, the game is a sequel to
1987's Maniac Mansion, but it bears lit-
tle resemblance to that archaic mas-
terpiece, noted for the debut of Lu-
casArts' SCUMM story system. Graph-
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Day of the Tentacle is a seqLje! io the iirsi
SCUMM adventure. Maniac Mansion.
ics, sound, and storage devices have
improved significantly over the past six
years. As if to dramatically illustrate ex-
actly how far we've come, the com-
plete Maniac Mansion — CGA graphics
and PC speaker sounds intact — is clev-
erly hidden within Day of the Tentacle.
Whether or not you're familiar with the
original, it's a delightful spin down mem-
ory lane. Be warned, however: The
experience is like falling through a pri-
mordial portal of computer gaming.
The story remains as clever as ever,
but the presentation will make your
VGA-loving skin crawl.
Beyond some well-deserved back-
slapping, the inclusion of Maniac Man-
sion actually fits in with the sequel's
wacky premise of time travel. An all-
talkie introduction sets the stage:
Green and Purple Tentacle, cut for a
stroll, stumble upon toxic waste dis-
charged from Dr. Fred Edison's secret
laboratory. Despite Green's warnings,
Purple takes a gulp and is scon trans-
formed into a highly intelligent, super-
aggressive appendage, intent on tak-
ing over the world.
To prevent further damage. Dr.
Fred enlists the help of three kids: Ber-
nard, a well-meaning computer geek;
Hoagie, a heavy-metal roadie; and Lav-
erne, a slightly off-center med student
and freelance surgeon. The plan is to
travel back in time, one day before Pur-
ple Tentacle become infected. Unfor-
tunately, Dr. Fred's time machines —
retrofitted portable outhouses, called
Chron-o-Johns — misfire, zapping our
three misadventurers in opposite direc-
tions in space and time. Hoagie lands
in the era of Benjamin Franklin, while
Laverne travels to a future twisted by
the evil Purple Tentacle. Only Bernard
returns intact, where he must coordi-
nate joint efforts by his distant friends
to halt the Purple threat.
From here, the story takes off into
three disparate, but interrelated, sec-
tions. Once a link in time is estab-
lished, you can switch control to each
character as needed. The mouse-driv-
en SCUMM interface, refined in the Mon-
key Island and Indiana Jones series, re-
mains one of the genre's most intuitive
and friendly. Puzzles are object-orient-
ed and relatively nonlinear in nature.
Most are of intermediate difficulty requir-
ing simple manipulation of collected
items. The fun part, of course, is sim-
ply explohng odd locations and engag-
ing in outrageously funny conversa-
tions. Multiple games can be saved
and restored for convenience sake.
You may get stumped, but unlike oth-
er adventures, there's no punishment
for wrong actions.
Except for a few short transitional
scenes, disk-based users will find the
digitized speech ends after the pro-
logue. The CD-ROM version, however,
features talking characters throughout.
While both versions are identical and
equally enjoyable, the full-throated CD
edition — containing more than 268MB
of sound — is simply fantastic. Profes-
sional actors contribute to the success,
especially the inspired casting of Rich-
ard Sanders, best known as Les Ness-
man on the TV sitcom WKRP in Cincin-
nati, as Bernard.
Graphics and animation are also ex-
cellent, inspired by the Chuck Jones
era of Warner Brothers cartoons. Of par-
ticular interest is the hilarious opening
credit sequence, good enough to sit
through several times. Lead artist Peter
Chan imparts a wonderfully inventive,
almost surreal edge to his wildly exag-
gerated graphic styling.
Terrific fun from start to finish, Day of
the Tentacle is one tongue-in-cheek
adventure you'll wish would never end.
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V.17 fax protocol. Connect-
ed to a similar modem, the
1442FX can manage trans-
fers of up to 57,600 bps
wfien transferring raw text
with compression active,
Such speed leaves those of
us who remember 300-bps
modems almost short of
breath.
The sturdy white plastic
case is of the "sit under the
phone" variety. It sports
eight status lights on the
front, but unfortunately, the
power switch is on the back
along with the DB-25 serial
connector, power connec-
tor, and two phone jacks. At
just under two pounds with
power connector, it's light
enough to pack along with
your laptop (and it's much
less expensive than battery-
powered pocket modems of
similar capability). Best Data
also sells a less expensive in-
ternal version, but the ease
of transferring an external mo-
dem to another computer
and the reassurance of the
front-panel status lights
make the external model a
more attractive choice.
The 1442FX is a solid per-
former. Many 14,400-bps mo-
dems are more finicky
about connecting to other
brands than the older 2400-
bps models, but I had no
trouble connecting to many
modems ranging in speed
from 1200 bps to 14,400
bps. Fax connections were
handled flawlessly as well.
The modem I reviewed in-
cluded the DOS-based
QuickLink II fax/data pack-
age. Best Data recently an-
nounced the Gold Bundle,
which incfudes the 1442FX,
a CompuServe introductory
membership kit, and the Win-
CIM terminal program; you
may find other bundles at
your local retailer as well. Al-
though the modem retails
for S329, it can be found for
well under $200 at discount
122 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
retailers. At that price, can
you afford not to upgrade to
14,400-bps speed?
DENNY ATKIN
Best Data Products
(800) 632- BEST
(818) 773-9600
$329 (external)
$239 (internal)
Circle Reader Service Number 2B9
third that has some of the
characteristics of both. Dis-
tortion morphing takes an inn-
age and radically distorts it
to create something weird.
For example, if you transi-
tion-morph pictures of a la-
dy and a tiger, you get a
new image of a tiger-wom-
an. Or you can distortion-mor-
fit gwrfli fjtnuMw QtipMy siwingi r»i»a^> n*\
Winlrriages:morph g/ves you itie power to create impressive
transition-morpti animations between pictures.
WINIAAAGES:
MORPH
Did you feel a thrill when
T10Q0 oozed through the
bars in Terminator 2? Did
you record Michael Jack-
son's "Black or White" video
so you could play it for your-
self in even heavier rotation?
Do you watch "Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine" just to
see Odo reconstitute him-
self from a chair or a wine
bottle? If so, you're a nut for
morphing, the latest fad in
computer graphics special ef-
fects with, as far as is
known, no practical use oth-
er than to create startling
eye candy.
Morphing comes in two fla-
vors. Transition morphing is
the process of smoothly com-
bining two images into a
ph a face to give it a Klin-
gon forehead, a Pinocchio
nose, Ferengi ears, and oth-
er bizarre features.
Winlmages:morph does
both kinds of morphs, and it
does them well. This is a pro-
gram for the true morph en-
thusiast. You can create sin-
gle or multiple images in a
single distortion-morph oper-
ation, precisely controlling
which parts of each image
will morph together. Distor-
tion morphs are completely
free-form, with precise
boundary control. Winlmag-
es:morph reads most kinds
of graphics files and creates
animation sequences in full
24-bit color in AutoDesk FLI
format. You can even break
up an animation rendering
and distribute it over many
PCs — a useful feature,
since a 24-bit, 30-frame mor-
ph animation can take
hours to render on even a
fast 486. You'll need 4MB of
RAM to run the program,
but Black Belt recommends
8MB of memory for optimal
performance,
Winlmages:morph is
even easy to use, once
you've grasped the basic
concepts. (The online manu-
al isn't great, but you'll be
able to figure out most fea-
tures with a little experimen-
tation.) The real skill is in
knov/ing how to choose con-
trol points and define bound-
aries for the best morph ef-
fects. You'll gain that skill
only through experience. I
recommend working with
256-color, single-image out-
put before trying your hand
at animation.
One caveat; As a slick
special effect, morphing
was hot two years ago. To-
day, even though morphing
is new to the PC, people
may not be impressed.
You'll have to come up with
something really spectacu-
lar to evoke the same awe
Terminator 2 did back in
1991 . But Winimagesimorph
certainly gives you the tools
and the power to do it.
STEVEN ANZOVIN
Black Belt Systems
(800) 852-6442
S199.95
Crrcle ReadBf Service Number 290
ROCK AND BACH
STUDIO
Kids love music videos, but
watching videos is a pas-
sive activity. Why not encour-
age them to exercise their
creativity by using Rock and
Bach Studio to create their
own videos with dazzling
special effects?
Targeted at kids between
ages 7 and 14, Rock and
Bach Studio lets them ex-
plore the world of music by
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composing songs, creating
music videos, and experi-
menting with rliythm and har-
mony. Accompanied by
Edison, their computer com-
panion, your children look, lis-
ten, and create as they
browse through each room
of the studio.
Fluorescent colors flash
across your PC's monitor as
Rock and Bach Studio's mu-
sicians demonstrate
rhythms, instruments, and
dance moves. Each screen
displays options with both
words and pictures, allow-
ing children to wander
through the program without
assistance. The text is casu-
al and friendly in style, so
that even a young reader
won't feel intimidated.
Kids will encounter a vari-
ety of ensembles, ranging
from jazz and Latin combos
to rock groups to full orches-
tral sound. Each room in
Rock and Bach Studio pro-
vides a new musical experi-
ence. In The Drum Clinic,
children can bang out their
own rhythms on their key-
boards as they experiment
with an assortment of
drums, cymbals, and
gongs. In The Instrument
Room, children discover the
history of traditional instru-
ments and the instruments'
orchestral value.
Leaping from the tradition-
al to the ultramodern, chil-
dren can experiment with dig-
itized sound in The Sound
Effects Room, As they
watch the sound's graphic
form, your kids can create
their own effects using
echo, reverberation, and
sound filters.
In The Music Room, Rock
and Bach Studio uses hu-
mor to show that classical
music can be interesting.
Children learn that Mozart,
"the original rock star," be-
gan touring Europe at age 7
and that Debussy created
124 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
the "original New Age mu-
sic." Children can also listen
to classics by such famous
composers as Brahms,
Beethoven, and John Philip
Sousa.
Once your kids feel com-
fortable with the fundamen-
tals, they can use this knowl-
edge and their imagination
RAILROAD
TYCOON DELUXE,
PIRATES! GOLD
MicroProse has taken two
classic Sid fvleier games.
Railroad Tycoon and Pi-
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to create a music video.
First, they must compose
their own song using sec-
tions of prerecorded melo-
dies. After mixing their favor-
ite riffs, children can audi-
tion musicians to form the
band. Then they move to vid-
eo production to coordinate
camera angles, back-
grounds, and special ef-
fects to complement their mu-
sic. After they've finished,
children can watch their vid-
eo with Edison or copy it to
a disk to share with a friend
(the video can be saved in
a stand-alone format so
your friend doesn't have to
own a copy of Rock and
Bach Studio to play it).
LISA YOUNG
Brsderbund
(300) 521-6263
S35.95
Circle Reader Service Number 291
for today's PCs. Although
the originals still stand as
two of the most playable
games in the company's his-
tory, the Super MGA graph-
ics and more-detailed play-
ing environments of Railroad
Tycoon Deluxe and Pirates!
Goid make great games
even better.
Railroad Tycoon Deluxe
is a game of railroad devel-
opment: You build a rail line
from the ground up. You've
got to balance economic
and logistic considerations
while trying to make a iarge,
profitable enterprise grow.
The depth of the econom-
ic model and the omnipres-
ent competition from other
rail lines make Railroad Ty-
coon Deluxe an exciting, in-
teresting game that's likely
to hold your attention for
many hours. You must lay
track prudently, build sta-
tions, buy locomotives, and
set up schedules which will
meet the necessary supply-
and-demand requirements
of your stations.
Railroad Tycoon Deluxe
improves the depth of the ec-
onomic model (taking into ac-
count such things as drasti-
cally falling stock prices)
and adds several new loca-
tions which give you an op-
portunity to explore not only
North America and Europe,
but South America and Afri-
ca as well.
Unfortunately, the game
shows indications that it was
rushed into release before
some problems were ironed
out. It locks up occasionally,
and has more than the aver-
age share of sound card ad-
dressing conflicts. On the
map screen, the viewing ar-
ea sometimes jumps too far
away from your mouse
clicks. The manual spends
an entire chapter taking you
through a detailed tutorial rail-
road which is missing from
the Deluxe version's disks.
The screen prompts were
sloppily done in places, and
the copy protection (identify-
ing a locomotive from a pic-
ture) presented me with a
train which wasn't men-
tioned in either the manual
or the technical supplement.
Railroad Tycoon Deluxe
basically puts a pretty face
on an otherwise solid game.
As far as play goes, the
bugs of the new version bal-
ance out the enhance-
ments. If you already own
Railroad Tycoon, it might
not be worth the money to
upgrade. But if you never
played the original, this is
one rail line you'll want to
hop aboard.
Pirates! Goid is truly a vis-
ual feast, with hand-painted
screens that have the feel of
Caribbean watercolors. It's
off to the seas in a small
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and many, many dueling
scars. Pirates! Gold features
three main arenas of action:
sword figtiting, ocean-faring
battles, and land battles.
These are connected by a
role-playing shell which al-
lows you to court the favor
of local politicos, woo beau-
tiful women, and recruit salty
dogs in the locai pub.
All in all, Pirates! Gold is
as addicting a game as
you're likely to find. It
doesn't take weeks to learn,
and it provides hours of fun.
In the fencing sequence,
you'll find yourself lunging,
parrying, and slashing in a
duel with an opponent. At
first it seems like an exer-
cise in key bashing, but af-
ter several duels the mad-
ness gives way to method,
and you'll discover that
there are times when a par-
ry can save your hide and
set you up for a low lunge
sure to score.
The seafaring battles are
a marvel of simplicity. You
steer the ship and fire the
cannon at your enemy.
There are a number of fac-
tors to take into account,
though, such as the direc-
tion of the wind, the fullness
of the sails, the cannon re-
load rates, and the speed of
a particular ship. Once an en-
emy ship has been softened
up, you can sail broadside
and grapple her. raiding the
deck and battling the ene-
my captain. If you're victori-
ous, you can plunder the
ship, then keep the ship or
scuttle it.
Pirates! Gold, like Rail-
road Tycoon Deluxe, does
have some problems. For all
the beauty of the interaction
screens, there isn't much va-
riety (towns of different na-
tionalities should look differ-
ent). There's no easy way to
restore a game (you must ex-
it the game entirely to restart
a saved game), and you
126 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
can't save a game unless
you're in port. Finally, some
of the logistical interfaces
are a bit clumsy; there's no
easy way to switch your com-
mand to a newly captured
ship until you face combat.
However, Pirates! Gold is
a more spectacular up-
grade than Railroad Tycoon
able microprocessor speed.
But it's not just a pretty
face — it's a solid performer
backed by excellent prod-
uct support.
The standard configura-
tion, which I reviewed, has a
33-MHz i486DX, 4MB of
memory, a 170MB Quantum
hard drive, a 16-bit IDE con-
Pirates! Gold takes the CGA classic into llie Super VGA realm,
adding beautiful tiand-painted graphics.
Deluxe: even if you already
own the original Pirates!,
this new version is certainly
worth looking into. In all.
both of these games are es-
sential additions to any seri-
ous gamer's library.
PAUL C SCHUVTEM.A
MicroProse
(800) 879-7529
Railroad Tycoon Deluxe— $69.95
Circle Reader Service Number 292
Pirates! Gold— S69.95
Circle Reader Service Number 293
ARES 486-33DX
The first thing you'll notice
about the ARES 486-33DX
midtower PC is that it's a
very attractive unit, with a
smoked-plastic front panel
covering the turbo, reset,
and power buttons, as well
as a bright green LED dis-
play which shows the adjust-
trotler, dual floppy drives, a
256K external cache, a
three-button mouse, a Flash
101 programmable key-
board, a low-radiation
SVGA monitor, and a VLB
SpeedStar Pro graphics
card. Windows 3.1 and MS-
DOS 6 are not only included
on the hard drive but sup-
plied on disk as well.
ARES provides every-
thing you need to get up
and running — and stay run-
ning. Along with ample doc-
umentation, complete with
technical specifications of
all components, ARES sup-
plies a system inspection
checklist, a CMOS configura-
tion checklist, a printout of
the factory diagnostic re-
sults, and a lifetime member-
ship card for 24-hour techni-
cal support. One unusual
service supplied by ARES is
remote diagnostics of your
system. You can simply use
your modem and the sup-
plied QA Plus software to
call the ARES host comput-
er and let the service techs
take over and find out exact-
ly what's wrong with your
computer.
ARES uses a MIcronics
MX30 VESA local-bus moth-
erboard, which has a 238-
pin ZIP socket for upgrading
to a DX2, OverDrive, or
P24T Pentium processor.
Two 32-bit VL-bus slots and
six 16-bit ISA slots provide
ample expansion capability.
The well-built 19-lnch-high
midtower case provides
easy access to all the sys-
tem components and card
slots.
ARES provides a two-
year parts warranty and a life-
time labor warranty with all
its systems. With that and
the company's remote diag-
nostics, 24-hour support,
and 60-day money-back
guarantee, the ARES 486-
33DX is a strongly backed,
quality system that you can
feel secure in buying.
BRUCE M. BOWDEN
ARES
(800) 322-3200
(313)473-0808
SI. 795
Circle Reader Service Number 294
GRAND SLAM
BRIDGE II
MICRO BRIDGE
COMPANION
I love to play bridge, but
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These games take differ-
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cal and inciudes sound card support,
but it plays only an intermediate-level
game. Micro Bridge Companion skips
most of tlie graphics and sound but
plays like a bridge expert.
Bridge presents a unique challenge
to the computer programmer. Most
computer chess games give even
good players a challenge: most good
bridge players can trounce computer
bridge games. Chess deals with
straightforward logic, in v/hich stan-
dard artificial inteHigence techniques ex-
cel. Bridge has the added dimensions
of probability and statistics (because
you're unable to see all the cards).
If you're a competent bridge player,
you'll beat Grand Slam more times
than not, You'll need to be much bet-
ter to beat f^/licro Bridge Companion at
the same rate. I had a bit of difficulty
evaluating the games' playing
strengths during contract bridge match-
es. The luck of the deal has a lot to do
with the final score. It's easy to get car-
ried away with your brilliance after get-
ting several consecutive good hands.
Micro Bridge Companion supports
duplicate bridge, and you can pit your-
self directly against the computer. I
barely managed to keep parity with the
computer during duplicate play and
succeeded only when I really worked
hard.
Besides the usual openings and re-
sponses in typical situations, both pro-
grams offer a variety of bidding conven-
tions. Weak two-bids and special no-
trump bids are among the choices of-
fered. Both programs play using the
Staynnan convention, but this was only
evident in Grand Slam; after playing sev-
eral hands that called for this conven-
tion. Its manual, unlike Micro Bridge
Companion's, didn't mention this fea-
ture explicitly.
Missing from Grand Slam's bidding
are the Blackwood and Gerber conven-
tions. These are always present in Mi-
cro Bridge Companion's play: in fact,
the programmers thought them so im-
portant that they can't be turned off,
even from the conventions menu. It's al-
most impossible to bid a slam without
these conventions. This is an especial-
ly haunting omission that detracts
from Grand Slam's playability.
Both games let you load and save
deals, so that you can play an especial-
ly interesting hand again later, show it
to a friend, or challenge someone else
to do better than you at playing it,
In either game, you can choose who
gets the best hands — either you, your
team, or your opponents, Grand Slam
will also let you select the deal type.
such as slam, game, no-trump, or a
part-score hand. These options let you
tailor the games to give you the partic-
ular kind of practice you need.
One valuable bonus included with Mi-
cro Bridge Companion is a set of 24
deals drawn from The Bridge World
magazine and designed by Alfred
Sheinwold, They're intended to chal-
lenge even experienced players, and
Grand Slam Bridge It rias a graphic edge,
but plays an intermediate-level game.
each of the deals tests and illustrates
a different concept.
If you like bridge, you'll definitely
want to get one of these games. Even
if you prefer to play with real people,
these games will help keep you in prac-
tice. My wife and I use these games to
develop our strategy before matches,
and they help tremendously. Practicing
with these programs may not only
help improve your game, but it may al-
so reduce the number of glares you
get from your partner.
RICHARD C LEINECKER
Eleclronic Arts
(800) 245-A525
Grand Slam Bridge II— $49,99
Circle Reader Service Number 295
Great Game Products
(80a) Games-4U
(301)365-3297
Micro Bridge Companion— $59.95
Circle Reader Service Number 296
MEDLEY PLUS
The Medley Plus multimedia bundle
from Cell Micro brings MPC compatibil-
ity to your PC in an inexpensive, easy-
to-install package. It consists of a
sound card, a CD-ROM drive, stereo
speakers, and necessary cables, Also
included is a starter CD-ROM library
consisting of the Toolworks Multimedia
Encyclopedia, World Atlas, U.S. Atlas,
and Game Pack II,
A small but complete manual
guides you through installation, I was
able to Install the sound card, CD-ROM
drive, and all the software in less than
an hour Included on floppy are sound-
editing and -digitizing programs, CD-
ROM control software, and all the driv-
ers for the CD-ROM and sound card.
The sound board is compatible with
Ad Lib, Sound Blaster Pro II, COVOX,
and Disney Sound Source drivers. It
has an 0PL3 FM stereo synthesizer,
which generates 20 voices. The board
can produce and play back stereo
sounds from four sources at sampling
rates ranging from 4 to 44,1 kHz, and
it's equipped with an automatic stereo
recording level contro!. You can output
to an externa! amplifier or use the on-
board four-watt amplifier, which accom-
modates two speakers. The CD-ROM
drive attaches to a 16-bit interface on
the sound card and has a fast 265-ms
access time, with a double-speed trans-
fer rate of 300K per second,
Cell Micro gives free phone support
during the one-year warranty period,
BRUCE M, BOWDEN
Cell Micro
(800) 874-2355
(714) 830-2355
S599
Circle Reader Service Number 297
XTREE FOR
WINDOWS 1.5
Why bother with another Windows file
and program manager? Doesn't Win-
dows do it all? Well, no. XTree for Win-
dows adds more, v/hile making many
operations simpler. The package actu-
ally consists of three programs: XTree
(the file manager, viewer, and archiv-
er), XTree Command Center (the pro-
gram manager and macro recorder/
language), and XTreeLink (the disk-
drive sharing utility).
XTree's file viewer and AutoView win-
dow are very useful, They display
most word processor, graphic, spread-
sheet, and database files without hav-
ing to launch the original applications,
which makes browsing your hard
drive much faster and easier.
Double-click on a ZIP (archive) file,
and it becomes a volume (like an ad-
ditional drive) in your directory tree.
You'll see the ZIP directory, and you
can view each file. XTree handles ex-
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ly. I initially had troubles viewing files in
the new ZIP 2 format, but a patch availa-
ble in XTree's vendor support area on
CompuServe solved that problem.
XTree Command Center could be
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that you click to launch. You can start
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of space on the desktop. You can
drag and drop a program or document
from XTree onto a CommandBar to
make a new button, move buttons
from one CommandBar to anottier, or
bring a button into ttie Event Sctiedul-
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1 hias ttireefuii-lengtti 16-bit expansion
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tieigtnt bays, and a 60-watt power sup-
ply. The LapStation II has four full-
length 16-bit expansion slots, one half-
height bay, and a 50-watt power sup-
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length 16-bit slots, one third-hetght
bay, and a 40-watt power supply. And
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ically. You can also have a button dis-
play other command bars and assign
hot keys to buttons.
Command Center also has a macro
recorder, and you can edit and debug
these macros using a macro language.
The language is simple to learn and pro-
vides DDE and Network DDE support.
Finally, XTreeLINK lets you connect
two PCs with a serial null-modem cable
or a (faster) parallel data transfer ca-
ble. All the drives on the remote PC
then can be accessed as if they were
partitions on the local PC. You can trans-
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your laptop, and even run programs on
the other computer's drive.
XTree for Windows is a fine product
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AXONIX LAPSTATION IV
If you've ever priced expansion or dock-
ing stations for laptop computers, you
know they're expensive and have lim-
ited capability. Most cost $700-51,000
and only let you add two or three
cards. Few let you add more than a sin-
gle floppy or hard dhve.
Axonix offers five expansion stations
that range in price from $350-S700.
The Viax is a single-slot bus adapter
that weighs just two pounds and adds
a %-length 16-bit slot. The LapStation
LapStations are available for most laptops
with expansion connectors.
the LapStation IV offers five full-length
16-bit expansion slots, two half-height
bays, three third-height bays, and a
1 50-watt power supply,
All five models can work with a vari-
ety of laptops from Toshiba (all models
except the Satellite series), Texas Instru-
ments, Compaq (all models except the
Centura series), Tandy (486 series).
Gateway, Sharp, PC Brand, Com-
pudyne, Twinhead {Altima series), and
many other companies. Each station is
customized for your particular brand
and model, so you'll need to contact
Axonix for availability and price.
I tried a LapStation IV with a Toshi-
ba T6400. It took everything J could
throw at it, including a Quantum
240MB Hardcard, an 8-bit network
card, a low-end MIDI card, and a Vid-
eoSpigot video capture board. The unit
is quiet (much quieter than the T6400),
and Its tower-like case allowed me to
place it nght beside the T6400, Inside
the LapStation IV you'll find the power
cables for its five bays and adequate
room to install five expansion cards (a
sixth slot holds the circuitry that com-
municates with the computer).
It's hard to find fault with the Axonix
expansion stations. With five different
models and support for nearly every
portable computer with an expansion
connector, you can choose just the
amount of expansion you need and
save a bundle over the manufacturer's
own expansion or docking station.
DAVID ENGLISH
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(800) 866-9797
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REALMS OF
ARKANIA
Sir-Tech, best known for the
antediluvian adventure epic
Wizardry and its numerous
sequels, has journeyed
across the Atlantic to bring
U.S. gamers Realms of Ar-
kania, based on the Ger-
man pencii-and-paper role-
playing game Das Schwarz
Auge (The Black Eye).
Realms of Arkania uses a
typical find-the-magic-item
story line to preface the ac-
tion. The powerful Blade of
Destiny has been lost; it
must be retrieved by track-
ing down nine pieces of a
map and journeying deep in-
to Ore territory. Some of the
map pieces are obtained sim-
ply by saying nice things to
nonplayer characters
(NPCs), but others are
earned only after grueling
quests.
The character creation
process is where Realms of
Arkania first and most strong-
ly deviates from a typical ad-
venture game. In addition to
such traits as strength and
dexterity, characters also suf-
fer from a variety of negative
attributes like necrophobia
(not good to have when bat-
tling against undead crea-
tures) and a violent temper
(the root cause of many a
dysfunctional adventuring
party). If you don't want to
bother with creating a party,
you don't have to; several
saved games with pregener-
ated parties are included.
Once the party has been
created, the adventure be-
gins in the small seaside
town of Ragnar. After you've
explored the town, talked to
various NPCs, and
equipped the party, it's time
to start the quest proper. A
large map of Arkania is dis-
played on the screen with
red dots indicating each lo- I
132 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
Tne cnaraciers in Realms oi Arkania can nave negative traits, sucli
as short tempers and necrophobia.
More After Dark provides 25 new screen saver modules, such as
butterfly-chasing Boris the kitten.
cation. Traveling to an adja-
cent town is as simple as
clicking the right mouse
button and selecting your
destination.
If the trip is a long one,
the heroes are likely to en-
counter some not-so-nice
creatures and enter the com-
bat sequence. This uses a 3-
D isometric perspective of
the action similar to that in
The Immortal, Electronic
Arts' aging action-adventure
game. Each character in the
party has a limited number
of movement points to
move and attack the bad
guys, making battles much
more a test of brainpower
than a test of reflexes. The
computer can also fight the
battles if you're not up to the
task. The more battles you
win, the more experience
points you receive, and the
more powerful your party
will become.
The graphics in Realms
of Arkania vary from se-
quence to sequence. The
town and dungeon graphics
are a bit weak, the NPC and
character portraits are excel-
lent, and the animation in
the battle sequence is lim-
ited (the characters and crea-
tures are quite small) but de-
tailed. The sound effects are
also a mixed bag; they're
best during the battle se-
quence. And the music is
nice at first, but the repeti-
tion gets annoying after a
while.
The first game of a prom-
ised trilogy. Realms of Ar-
kania has plenty of depth
and will appeal to fans of Wiz-
ardry and f\/light and Magic
(to which the game has
more than a passing resem-
blance). Adventurers expect-
ing the realtime action of an
adventure game such as Ul-
tima Underworld won't be
as impressed.
ZACH MESTON
Sir-Tech
(315)393-6633
S59.95
Circle Reader Service Number 300
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refrigerators {this one's
called Om Appliances), and
various flocks (tfiese include
flying birds, swimming polli-
wogs, swarming bees, and
spinning atoms).
Other modules feature Ori-
gami paper folds, domi-
noes, sunbursts, and fractal
forests. To top it off, you get
a module that's also a play-
able space arcade game,
called Lunatic Fringe, Many
of the screen savers sup-
port 256-color Super VGA
displays and Windows-com-
patible sound cards.
If you own After Dark or
Star Trek: The Screen Sav-
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BLUE FORCE
Blue Force, Jim Walls' new
police game, represents a
modest improvement over
Tsunami's debut animated
adventure, the grim Ring-
world, but falls well short of
Walls' best work on Sierra's
Police Quest series.
You're a motorcycle cop
in a small coastal city who's
on the trail of gun smug-
glers — one of whom, coinci-
dentally, is the killer of your
parents. The interface (a var-
iation on Ringworld's) is
sharp and easy to use, and
the sideways scrolling used
on occasion is a significant
improvement over the static
scenes that typically accom-
pany such games. The inter-
cut animations are moody,
and the music unobtrusive.
Some sharp animated digit-
ized images are used in the
closeups for conversation.
(However, the conversations
are lamentably one-track.)
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Vow have the right to renoin silent. Hnything you
say can and will be used ogainst you in a court
of law.
Blue Force is the newest game from Jim Walls, (he police officer who
helped create the Police Quest series.
The problem here's the
story. It's not as linear as
Ringworld. but there's also
not much here that doesn't
bear directly on the smug-
gling case (aside from flirt-
ing with the bird at the jail's
info desk or running Tsuna-
mi demos on the computer
at home). In Police Quest,
Sonny Bonds invariably had
a lot to do — much of it enjoy-
ably tied up with police pro-
cedure and not strictly relat-
ed to the central quest.
Here, procedure has been re-
duced to filing evidence,
cleaning your gun, and us-
ing the appropriate radio
codes.
And you don't do even
that much in the second
half of the game, in which
you're sort of an adjunct PI
who doesn't use search war-
rants and is allowed to
throw hand grenades,
(Once again, you're part of
a team but have no control
over its other member. And
what's the point of a police
game in which police don't
behave like police?) Happi-
ly, there is some variety in
the ending — but you may
still be trying to swallow the
suspect Walls springs on
us. I'll let Tsunami off with a
warning this time.
PETER OLAFSON
Tsunami
(209) 683-9283
$69.95
Circle Reader Service Number 302
ETERNAM
If you played Data East's
Drakkhen, you'll recognize
Eternam almost instantly.
This two-year-old Infogra-
mes adventure — brought
over from France by Cap-
stone — gives every evi-
dence of being the prom-
ised sequel to that flawed
but fascinating game.
To PC users, that may not
sound like much of a recom-
mendation. Drakkhen was a
delightfully atmospheric
game when it originally ap-
peared on the Amiga — dis-
tinctly ahead of its time with
its four independently con-
trolled characters — but it
was translated poorly to the
PC.
Eternam, designed ex-
pressly for the PC, would
seem to be an attempt to
get it right. It preserves
Drakken's basic structure: a
first-person view outdoors,
with a polygon ground and
bitmapped scenery and mon-
stars, and a third-person
graphic adventure inside
the various towns and cas-
tles you'll explore.
The obvious weaknesses
in the original have been cor-
rected, Now you can really
talk to these people, and
the puzzles aren't hopeless-
ly obtuse. The landscape is
now dotted with hills and
has irregular shorelines — far
more realistic than
Drakkhen's flat rectangular
slabs of terrain — and control
of combat has been re-
stored to the player.
What's missing, sadly, is
the intriguing weirdness of
Drakken. You never quite
knew what you were going
to run into out there on the
darkening plain, and that
added a deeply addictive ef-
fect to the game. Here that
weirdness is replaced by a
silly sense of humor that's
more peculiar than amus-
ing. (Remember: The
French revere Jerry Lewis,)
Eternam's certainly more
accessible than its predeces-
sor. It's bigger, prettier,
more playable, but, alas, it's
also less compelling and
more conventional. Some-
thing gained, but something
lost. C'est la vie, eh?
PETER OLAFSON
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SJ-144
The SJ-144 printer from Star
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mentions a "heat fusion print-
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page simply deschbes it as
a laser-quality printer.
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quality of the SJ-144's text output. Stan-
dard characters have 48-dot-high defi-
nitions, doubling the precision of premi-
um 24-pin printers, and the 360 dot-
per-inch resolution bests most lasers.
The crisp, jet black characters have a
slightly glossy surface that makes
themi practically leap off the page.
With its unique 144-element print-
head, the SJ-144 can print two and a
half lines of text in a single pass. The
result is very quick priming at a rate of
255 characters per second for 10 cpi
pica text (equivalent to 2.3 pages per
minute, according to Star). Most impres-
sively, the SJ-144 delivers its highest lev-
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vision for draft-quality printing, nor
does it need one.
This printer might be hard to pigeon-
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dows driver installs easily and includes
15 scalable TrueType fonts, usable
from nearly all Windows programs. Un-
der DOS, the SJ-144 supports the com-
mand sets of popular Epson and IBM
printers for wide compatibility.
It's an extremely versatile printer.
Overhead projection transparencies
and iron-on transfer material are availa-
ble from Star, as are special strip-label
ribbon cartridges, containing Vj-inch-
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wide pregummed label material in a va-
riety of colors.
The $599 suggested retail price
seems appropriate for its capabilities,
near the top of the dot-matrix range
but comfortably below most laser pric-
es. Per-copy costs are modest. Ribbon
prices are reasonable, while the built-
in sheet feeder avoids the expense of
continuous-form paper.
The SJ-144's biggest shortcoming in-
volves graphics printing. Continuous-
tone images like photographs are often
spoiled by horizontal bands. The man-
ual's "Optimizing Print Quality" de-
scribes an adjustment which helped a
little, but never completely cured the
problem.
Its color capabilities were also some-
what disappointing. Star claims "vi-
brant, full-color printing," but only sol-
id, saturated colors came out well. And
skin tones showed particularly weak
reproduction. Color printing is also
quite expensive. No matter how much
(or little) of a color a row of pixels con-
tains, the SJ-144 makes four passes
over the row, using a different-colored
segment of ribbon each time. For
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find the next color, limiting the color rib-
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For those of you who pre-
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There's plenty to see and
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line never changes, the
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Sierra Adventure Bundle $39
Sierra Arcade Bundle $24
Sierra Family Fun Pak S29
Space Quest Bundle 1 -4 $42
Ultima Bundle 1-6 CD $59
Ultima Trilogy $39
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Wing Commander DIx 348
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Advertisers' Index
Reader Service Number/Advertiser
Page Reader Service Number/Atfverlfser
Page Reader Service Number/Advertiser
Page
162 8-Bi! G-11
194 Abacus . , . , 51
169 Access Sollviare ?4,75
Adventure LeamingWare 150
229 Amisti Ouliaw Shareware Co 154
157 AMTEX Software CorporatiDn 123
233 Amies Ans'Aers , , 154
137 Aulornap Inc 103
Bare Bones Software 154
152 Bear TeclmoloQies G-23
Best Personalized Bool<s 149
173 Blue Valley Sollware 154
121 BR, ROMS 152
181 Caloke Industries _ G-21
118 Cell Micro 147
167 CH Products 139
175 Cliips & Bits 143
174 Cilizen American Corp 15
139 Cmi Creative Micro Designs, fnc G-9
223 Colorado Spectrum 64
209 Compaq IFC.l
150 CompSult 154
114 CompSult (3-11
240 Compton's NeviMedia 67
Computer Business Services 148
225 Computer Friends , 154
Comlrad 144
125 Creative Labs 3
238 Creative Pixels Ltd G-23
144 CybsrDreams 113
106 Davidson _ 41
151 Davidson 43
161 Delphi 19
131 DemoSouriB 151
239 Disks Plenty G-23
20a Disk-Count Software 140,141
192 Df T's Music Sollware 129
136 Dr rs Music Software 128
O&K Enterprises, Inc 149
165 Electronic Arts 90,91
213 Eniiiassy Duality Products 120
230 Fairbrothers 150
134 Fantaiia Concepis, Inc 150
FGIvl Connection G-11
115 Free Spirit Software 133.135
21B Fusion Snflware . - ,151
228 Genovation Inc 146
110 Grapeviiie Group, Tlie G-7
187 Grolier Multimedia 11
217 Herne Oala Systems Ltd 150
117 Hoiiyware Entertainment 121
234 Horse Feathers Grapfiics G-23
111 ttumongous Entertainment 23
129 Hypedigtit Enterprises 150
IBM 5,33.67
183 Impressions 25
222 Interplay , ^ 131
Intuit -■ 71
232 ISL Software Corporation 156
18B Jack Daniels 65
231 Jackson Marking Products Co. Inc 148
JP PBJvl Products by Mail G-21
124 Kalfek Labs G-23
197 KF-PD Soltware G-11
Kid Secure ol America 148
178 LACE 152
Landmafk Solutions, Ina 149
164 Legacy Sollware 150
123 Logitech 55
159 Mad Man Solt'Wre G-13
199 Mallarc Sollware 109
158 Maxis 129
113 MECC 17
1B5 f^ediaVision 79
214 Micro Electronics 30,31
211 MicroLsague Sports 117
143 MicroProse 57
MicroSofl 60.61
MicrosotI 96
236 MicroSlorm Soltoare G-23
218 Multimedia Soltware Distributors 146
191 Needtiams Electronics. Inc 146
105 New World Computing 125
215 Ninlendo ol America IBC
NRI/M:Graw Hill _ , 73
141 Odyssey OnLine 152
149 Opcode Interactive 55
205 Origin 63
203 Origin 119
OSes Soltware Development 156
156 Pacific Microelectronics Inc 146
108 Panasonic 6,7
133 Papyrus 27
220 Parsons Technology , - 77
168 Parsons Technology , , 21
221 PC Erierprises 156
237 PC Zcne. Tbe 46,47
235 Pendragon Software Library 156
103 Penthouse OnLine 130
107 Penthouse Modem 157
Penthouse Pbotograplier 137
200 Peoples College 142
153 Perlorraance Peripherals, Inc G-21
207 Piiisl Perfect 136
224 Profit Group, Tfie 153
227 Psygnosis 82
196
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109
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126
210
190
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201
154
130
179
147
193
242
170
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127
219
195
132
189
172
128
Q Enterprises Software G-23
Quadra Interactive 45
Ramco Computer Supplies 156
ReadySolt Inc 127
Revell-Monogram, Inc 97
SaleSoft Systems Inc 150
ScanRoin Publications 155
School of Computef Training 148
School of PC Repair 148
Serif. Inc 13
Se)CXy 152
Sierra OnLine 59
Sierra OnLine BC
Sign Up 148
Smart Luck Software 152
SMC/Software of ttie Month Club 154
SoflShoppe Inc 150
Sollware Support inlernationat 150
Sollware Support inlernational G-S
SOGWAP Soltware G-13
SOMICH Enterprises 154
Spectrum Holobyle 34,35
SDiril of Discovery 39
Starware Publishing Co'p 153
SubLogic 104.105
Sunrise Sollware G-21
Thfustmaster 151
Turner Products 156
Turtle Beach Systems 137
Tycom G-21
UNI-ROM 156
US. Robotics 69
Value Software Inc 152
Viacom New Media 93
Viigin Games - 80,81
Virgin Games 114,115
Walnut Creek CDROM , 155
Wedgwood Rental 154
Windows 900 153
Product Ivlar! . . 146,147,148.149,150,151.152,153,154,155,156
Classifieds 157,158,158
104 COMPUTE Books G-19
COMPUTE'S Editor 900 Line 142
COMPUTE'S SharePak Disk Subscription 101
Gazette Disk Index G-21
Gazette Disk Subscription G-13,G-16
Gazette Single Disk G-40
Gazelle Specially Disk G-15
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nia; page 4: ivlark Wagoner; pages 8-10:
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oner; page 18: Mark Wagoner; page 20: Mark
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STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP
Statement of ow-ierstiip, managemeni. and cifcuiation [Act ol August 12, 1970; Section
3636, Thie 39. United Slates Code). 1 Title of publication: COMPUTE, 2. Date ol liling:
Sepiember 17, 1993, 3 Frequency ol issue: Publistied moniniy 4, Location ol known ol-
tice of pyblication: 1965 Broadway, New York. fJV 10023-5965. 5, Localio-i ot head-
quarters ol general business offices ol pubfisher 1965 Broadway. New York. Nf lt)Q23-
5965 6- Names, addresses of publistier. edilor. and managing edilor: Publlstier: Bob
Guccione. 1965 Broadway. New Yorii. NY 10023-5965. Editor Clifton Karnes, 324 West
Wendover Auenue, Greensboro. NC 27403. I^anaging editor: David English. 324 West
Wendover Avenue. Greensboro. NC 27406. 7. Owner: The names and addresses of stock-
holders owning or holdtng one perceni or more of lotal anrrounl of stock Compute Pub-
lications Inlernational. Hd,. 1965 Broadway. tJew York, NY 10023-5965. General fdedta
Publishing Group. Inc.. 1966 Bfoadway, New York, NY 10023-5965; General Media In-
ternalional. Inc., 1965 Broadway, New York, NY 10023-5965; A trust lo bonefil H C. Suc-
cione lamily. Grand Cayman. Cayman Islands. BWI, R C, Guccione. 1965 Broadway.
New York. NY 10023-5965. 8. Known bondholders, morigagees. and other security hold-
ers o\"(ning or holding one percent or more total amounts of bonds, mortgages, or ottier
securities: None, Average number ct copies of each issue during preceding 12 months:
(A) Total number ol copies printed 392.749, (B) Paid and/or requested circulation: 1.
Sales through dealers and carriers, sltecl vendors, counter sales: 43.752 2. Mail subscrip-
ions paid and.'or requesled: 238.003. (C) Total paid and/or requested circulation: 281.755.
(0) Free distribution by mail, earner, or other means; sample, complimcnlary, and other
free copies 1.435, (E) Total distribution: 283.190- (F) Copies not distributed: 1 Office
USB, left over, unaccounted, spoiled after printing: 26.845. 2. Return from news agents:
82.714. (G) Total: 392.749. Actual number ol copies ot single issue published nearest
10 filing date (A) Total number of copies printed 41 0.6S9. (B) Paid and/or requested cir-
culation- 1. Sales through dealers and carriers, street vendors, counter sales. 29.674. 2,
Mail subscriptions paid and/or requested: 262,000. (C) Total paid and/or reguasled cir-
culation- 291.574- (D) Free distribution by mail, carrier, or other means: sample, compli-
mcnlary, and olher tree copies: 1,450, (E) Tolal distribution: 293.124. (F) Copies not dis-
tributed: 1, Office use. tell over, unaccounted, spoiled after printing: 21,993. 2. Return
from news agents: 95,542. (G) Total: 410.G59, I ceriily thai the statements made by me
are correct and complete James B Iklarlise. Executive Vice President. Circulalion.
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Mind Games
A competition for the next cen-
tury — the National University
Technology Center in San Di-
ego, California, will host the
third annual Loebner Prize
competition on December 8.
As in the past two years, it
will be administered by the
Cambridge Center for Behav-
ioral Studies, an advanced-
studies institute located in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The competition pits humans
against computers: Human
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COMPUTE DECEMBER 1993
Uncle Sam
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COMPUTER
IDIOTS converge
(and
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competitive
computer intelligence
goes
Turing, and more
terminals attempt to deter-
mine whether they're convers-
ing with fellow humans or
with a computer. The author
of the winning software in this
year's competition will receive
S2,000 and a bronze medal.
Eventually, says Dr. Robert Ep-
stein, chairman of National Uni-
versity's psychofogy depart-
ment and facilitator of all
three contests, the Cam-
bridge Center will conduct an
open-ended contest in which
the topics of conversation will
be unrestricted and a prize of
$100,000 will be awarded to
the winner.
Named after Dr. Hugh G.
Loebner of New York City, the
Loebner Prize competition
Vi^as inspired by computer pi-
oneer Alan Turing, who in
1950 posed his famous ques-
tion. "Can computers think?,"
and came up with a test for
machine intelligence much
like this competition: If a per-
son conversing with a comput-
er cannot tell whether he or
she is conversing with a com-
puter or another person, then
the computer can be said to
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new concept store in Ventura,
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cording to Martin Duran, one
of the founders: "People call
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dors love it."
Since franchising the con-
cept is in the works, a store
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Try It On for Size
A software distribution tool
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wave in smart software shop-
ping — trying out applications
before buying.
CD Showcase allows you
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